Laboratory Quotes

“At my urgent request the Curie laboratory, in which radium was discovered a short time ago, was shown to me. The Curies themselves were away travelling. It was a cross between a stable and a potato-cellar, and, if I had not seen the worktable with the chemical apparatus, I would have thought it a practical joke.(Wilhelm Ostwald on seeing the Curie's laboratory facilities.)”

“I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.”

“In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point.”

“Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.”

“At the school of wisdom, mistake is not just a lesson but, a laboratory”

“A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.”

“We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun.”

“To fall in love twice, with the same person, you need to grow another heart. That's all I do in my secret underground laboratory at night...”

“Time... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he may be surrounded by all the conveniences money can provide; but if his time is taken from him he will remain sterile.”