- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laboratory Quotes
Where discovery actually happens.
These laboratory quotes come from researchers describing the rooms and setups behind their work, from a two-room radioactivity lab that later expanded to a mountain station built for cleaner experiments. See First quotes for more milestone reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.
- Fellow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978.
- Collaboration
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In 1983, I became the Vincent and Brook Astor Professor at The Rockefeller University, where I established a new Laboratory of Neurobiology and continued my close collaboration with Charles Gilbert on the circuitry of primary visual cortex.
- Biology
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I decided to pursue graduate study in molecular biology and was accepted by Professor Itaru Watanabe's laboratory at the Institute for Virus Research at the University of Kyoto, one of a few laboratories in Japan where U.S.-trained molecular biologists were actively engaged in research.
- Control
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After I arrived in Basel, I initially attempted to continue the project of my days in Dulbecco's laboratory, namely, the transcriptional control of the simian virus 40 genes.
- God
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I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was God Himself or whether it was scientists in the laboratory. It was us.
- Cancelled
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us.
- Mankind
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Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was first exposed to the idea of macro-molecular sequences while I was a postdoctoral fellow with Jack Strominger at Harvard. During that time, I briefly visited Fred Sanger's laboratory in Cambridge, England, to learn the methodology of RNA fingerprinting and sequencing.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the spring of 1948, I was able to join the newly created Brookhaven National Laboratory, which was dedicated to finding peaceful uses for atomic energy.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.
- Mushroom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing the mycelium of the Chaga mushroom under laboratory conditions provides an ecologically friendly alternative supply of this unique medicinal mushroom.
- Mountains
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- Nov 07, 2020
I constructed a laboratory in the neighborhood of Pike's Peak. The conditions in the pure air of the Colorado Mountains proved extremely favorable for my experiments, and the results were most gratifying to me.
- Bona Fide
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- Nov 07, 2020