Standard Laboratory Conditions

Famous quotes containing the words standard, laboratory and/or conditions:

    “Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?”
    —Milan Kundera (b. 1929)

    “My dear young friend ... civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic. Conditions have got to be thoroughly unstable before the occasion can arise.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)