Laboratories Quotes
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Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.
Louis Pasteur— Some Reflections on Science in France, pt.1.
The states are the laboratories of democracy.
— 1995 In the NewYorkTimes, 29 Jan.
Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren’t all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I’d light a match.
ingrid newkirk— The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999November 12
— After The Justice Department mailed 87 razor blade–laced threats to medical researchers studying news drugs on primates
Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
wendell berry— "A Statement against the War in Vietnam"
The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.
jane goodall— Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe (2000), p. 245.
The days are over when technology can be advanced in laboratories by individual scientists alone. Now you need an army of lawyers to negotiate the hazardous terrain of interlocking patents. Unless we find a solution to the problem of interlocking patents, the patent system may actually impede the very innovation it was designed to encourage.
ha-joon chang— Ch. 6, The tyranny of interlocking patents, p. 128.
All things in nature become identical with the phenomena they present when submitted to the practices of our laboratories, whose problems no less than their apparatus express in turn the problems and interests of society as it is. This view may be compared with that of a criminologist maintaining that trustworthy knowledge of a human being can be obtained only by the well-tested and streamlined examining methods applied to a suspect in the hands of the metropolitan police.
— Max Horkheimer, describing the pragmatist view, Eclipse of Reason (1947), p. 49
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.
— Arthur C. Clarke, Space and the Spirit of Man (1965)
After having achieved this immense work, an important scientific conclusion remains to be drawn: the anthropological study and the microscopic analysis of hair, carried out by four laboratories: Judiciary Medecine (Professor Ceccaldi), Société L'Oréal, Atomic Energy Commission, and Institut Textile de France showed that Ramses II was a 'leucoderm', that is a fair-skinned man, near to the Prehistoric and Antiquity Mediterraneans, or briefly, of the Berbers of Africa.
— Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, Colette Roubet, Lionel Balout, La Momie de Ramsès II: Contribution Scientifique à l'Égyptologie, Paris, Rech. sur les Civilisations, 1985, p. 383
