Labs quotes
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"The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world."
"During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab."
"But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up."
"In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses."
"I have no interest in putting stuff in my body that's made in a lab."
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"Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect."
"So if there were a container of contaminated urine, and somehow it managed to find its way to someplace a lot of damage could be done. Someone comes up to a lab worker. He knows he’s got the urine. ‘How would you like to have a million dollars?’ … Such things have been known to happen."
"It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. Of course she would."
"I try not to eat processed foods, well, ever. If it comes from a lab or a factory, I don't want it."
"Ratbert (as lab rat, to scientist): Doc, we have to talk. Every day you feed me over a hundred pounds of macaroni and cheese. At first I thought you were just being a good host. But lately I've been thinking it could be something far more sinister."
"You can't regulate every lab in the world."
"If there's something that someone else can do, let them do it. If I couldn't do it uniquely, let someone else do it and I would get back to the lab."
"In fact, I was in a lab that was a hundred percent funded by the Pentagon, and it was one of the centers of the organized antiwar resistance movement."
"My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter."
