“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools. It is about how we use them, and what we find out when we do.” UseComputerToolsTestsAstronomyBiologyChemistryTubesComputer ScienceTelescopesMicroscopes Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows.” ThinkingHeavenObjectsOughtShadowTestsBluePaintAtmosphereIsolatedSunlightTubesDomes Book:Monet: a retrospective Source: Monet: a retrospective
“The best idea ever thought of in the history of humanity is useless unless someone communicates it. It will die in the test tube. And in our case, what we're communicating here to people is not necessarily something they want to hear. And so, our demeanor - how we deliver this message - takes on crucial, crucial importance.” PeopleWantIdeasHumanityDiesCasesAtheismMessagesTestsImportanceCommunicatePositive AtheismUselessCrucialTubesDemeanor Author:Phil Plait
“Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.” GivingHumansLightSpiritTestsClimateWarmCharmRadiationPerfumeHuman SpiritTubesChemistEmanate Author:Fannie Hurst
“The modern version of Buridan's ass [a figurative description of a man of indecision] has a Ph.D., but no time to grow up as he is undecided between making a Leonardo da Vinci in the test tube or planting a Coca Cola sign on Mars.” MenGrowsGrowing UpModernTestsVersionsAssDescriptionMarsTubesIndecisionLeonardoCoca ColaUndecidedTime To Grow Up Author:Erwin Chargaff
“Jesus Christ is the greatest man in the history of the world. And to me, he's the greatest person in the history of mankind and the universe. We can't prove it, I can't put it in a test tube or in an astronomical formula, but by faith I believe it because the Bible teaches it.” MenWorldBelievePersonsI CanUniverseJesusI BelieveChristTeachMankindProveJesus ChristTestsFormulasWorld HistoryTubesProve ItGreatest Man Author:Billy Graham
“We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.” KnowsWayAbilityTestsBombsArtificial IntelligenceArtificialTubesPower Of GodAtomic BombCloning Author:James Frey
“The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.” WritingChildrenMadeBookDifferencesTelevisionBabyTestsWriting A BookTubesHaving A BabyBaby GirlConceiving Author:Norman Mailer
“I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.” KindMeanMadeStuffInterestingCrazyProductsTestsConsistentlyExplosionsLaboratoryTubesBeing Crazy Author:Jay McInerney
“Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.” TimeLearningWiseTroubleTestsTemporaryTubesTribulation Author:William Arthur Ward
“God never promised that we wouldn’t have challenges. In fact, He said just the opposite. His word says, ‘Be truly glad!...these trials are only to test your faith, to see whether or not it is strong and pure…’ so if your faith remains strong after being tried in the test tube of fiery trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day of His return.” IfsSaidFactsStrongChallengesReturnHonorPureGloryTestsOppositesPraiseRemainsGladTrialsTubesFieryGlory And Honor Author:Joel Osteen
“Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.” PeopleKnowsMenNeedsTwoYoungThreeCoursesKnownBabyCreaturesCapableTestsIntelligentSpeciesYoung ManFriendlyFrighteningAbsurdityManufacturingTubesRumoursHighly Intelligent Book:Soul Mountain Source: Soul Mountain
“Dr. Martinez: "I take it you don't want me to call your parent?" Max: "Uh, no." Hello, lab? May I speak to the test tube please?” WantMaySpeakParentPleaseTestsWant MeDrsHelloMaxTubesLabs Author:James Patterson
“If by 'miracle kids' you mean innocent test-tube babies whose DNA was forcibly unraveled and merged with two percent avian genes, yeah, I guess that would be us," I said. "Because it's a miracle that we're not complete nut jobs and mutant disasters.” IfsMeanSaidTwoWould BeKidsJobsBabyPercentTestsMiracleYeahDisasterInnocentNutsGenesDnaTubesMutants Author:James Patterson
“Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing and the trying of the others, there has been this peculiar rapport, comradeship, of us two so alike, so similar, but for science-boy and humanities-girl - the introspection, self examination, biannual deep summarizing conversations, and then the platonic parting.” ThinkingTryingHas BeensTwoSelfHumanityGirlBoysStrangeConversationKissingTestsInfiniteSeparationCrushPeculiarIntrospectionTestingInfatuationExaminationPartingTubesPseudoPlatonicRapportSelf-examinationComradeshipSummarizing Author:Sylvia Plath
“Be yourself-- Matthew Clairmont. Complete with your sharp vampire teeth and your scary mother, your test tubes full of blood and your DNA, your infuriating bossiness and your maddening sense of smell.” MotherBloodTestsScarySmellTeethVampireBeing YourselfDnaTubesMatthewInfuriating Book:A Discovery of Witches: A Novel Source: A Discovery of Witches: A Novel
“My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.” HeartRealityMy HeartTestsScientistMadFasterDelusionChemistrySoberSunnyTubesBack AgainSlickMad ScientistSpillage Author:Jonathan Lethem
“[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.” FirstsStillsScienceChallengesDiscoveryTestsChemistryFragileScarBiographiesLaboratoryTubes Author:Edward Teller
“In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply troubling, and a warning sign that should prompt all of us to think through these issues very carefully.” ThinkingShouldHumansScienceIssuesWeekTestsScientistExperimentsWarningTubesPromptsEmbryosWarning Signs Author:George W. Bush
“Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know it is to know it from within, from your witnessing self. The more you become aware, the more you can watch your mind - its subtle functioning. The functioning is tremendously complex and beautiful. Mind is the most complex phenomenon on the earth, the most subtle flowering of consciousness. If you want to really understand what the mind is, then you will have to detach yourself from your mind, and you will have to learn how to be just a witness. That's what meditation is all about.” IfsKnowsWayWantMindSelfHandsEarthBeautifulForceConsciousnessWatchesMeditationTestsComplexesWitnessSubtlePhenomenonElusiveTubesFloweringBeautiful Mind Author:Rajneesh
“The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work. Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.” MayEndsSelfMatterFactsHelpingPastScienceBitsProgressMaterialsDevelopmentTestsScientistInstrumentsSignificantScalesConstructionEngineeringDevotedOddsEvidentWireTubesAtticsNucleusOdds And Ends Author:Ernest Lawrence
“This was what the universities were turning out nowadays. The science-is-a-sacred-cow boys. People who believe you could pour mankind into a test-tube and titrate it, and come up with all the answers to the problems of the human race.” PeopleBelieveHumansProblemScienceAnswersRaceBoysMankindTestsAccountsSacredUniversityCome UpHuman RaceCowsTubesSacred Cows Author:Frank M. Robinson
“It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin condensed in a glass bowl. ... When the bowl was heated over a spirit lamp, an extremely violent explosion occurred, which shattered it into small fragments. On another occasion a drop was heated in a test-tube, and exploded with such violence that the glass splinters cut deep into my face and hands, and hurt other people who were standing some distance off in the room.” PeopleHandsFacesScienceSpiritCertainHurtRoomsCuttingViolenceAmountCircumstancesSolutionsStandingTestsDistancePropertyGlassesAccidentsViolentExperimentsOccasionsBowlsLampsFragmentsExplosionsShatteredTubesSmall AmountsSplinters Author:Ascanio Sobrero