Quotes About Lab Experiments

#1. It is telling commentary on economic orthodoxy that a whole subdiscipline--behavioral economics--and a raft of lab experiments are needed to show that humans often fail to behave with the rationality expected of them.

Kaushik Basu

#2. Climbing Mount Everest is more satisfying than standing at the top; flirting and foreplay are more exciting than having an orgasm; and conducting groundbreaking lab experiments is more interesting than receiving praise and prizes.

Yuval Noah Harari

#3. I enjoyed biology in high school, and that brought me to a research lab at U.C. Santa Barbara. I loved doing experiments, and I had fun with them. I realized this kind of problem-solving fit my intellectual style.

Carol W. Greider

#4. Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

Nancy Gibbs

#5. A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward.
A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.

Betty Smith

#6. And I am your guardian, your bodyguard, sworn to protect and defend you. And you are making my job excruciatingly difficult.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#7. I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people.

Steve Huffman

#8. To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

Mencius

#9. As much I love to imagine being alone in an orderly lab, I also know you can't stay in there forever and expect to do good work. Life is one of those experiments meant to be conducted in a stimulating, messy environment.

Sara Zarr

#10. THE OLD LAB was not used for anything much except detention. But there was still a faint smell of old science clinging to it, from generations of experiments which had gone wrong.

Diana Wynne Jones

#11. If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.

Robert Breault

#12. If ever thou gavest hosen or shoon Then every night and all Sit thou down and put them on And Christ receive thy soul This

Neil Gaiman

#13. All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

August Wilson

#14. I found working in the lab is so completely different than reading a textbook about it. You know, you're planning strategies; you're working with your own hands. There's essential satisfaction in running experiments.

Eric Kandel

#15. Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.

Ted Yoho

#16. I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

Elton John

#17. I don't want to die without at least trying to understand why I've lived." Beatrice

Michael Goorjian

#18. The test of a sword is not its polish but its temper

Elizabeth Moon

#19. All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

Ken Robinson

#20. Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of modern medicine. Genetics owes a huge debt to the humble fruit fly. There's almost no branch of the life sciences, in fact, that hasn't leaned heavily on one animal or another.

Sam Kean

#21. Better to build a bridge than a wall.

Elton John