#oratory

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#columbia university #continue #eighteen #graduate #graduate student

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#army #chicago #course #electromagnetic #few

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#enter #imagination #laboratory #leave #off

It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#bad #department #fail #having #invest

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. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#back #called #cancelled #ended #got

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#guinea #guinea pigs #humanity #just #laboratory

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#guinea #guinea pigs #humanity #just #laboratory

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#cannot #make #nothing #oratory #unbelievable

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#conviction #decorative #everything #fluency #forcible

I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire. ↗

— John Edward

#hospital #i #laboratory #used #vampire