Lilly Lab Education and Entertainment

Fun and Mostly True Websites of Interest

Saturday morning science - Don’t work hard, play hard

Zheng Lab - Bad Project (Lady Gaga parody)

Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine

Darwin grant review

The Onion - Science and Technology

O-H-I-O

Notable Quotes

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
~ Carl Sagan

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
~ Werner Von Braun  

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.
~ Ernest Rutherford

I find I'm luckier when I work harder.
~ Denton A. Cooley

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
~ Richard Feynman

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation, which is truly the most important time in your life.
~ Lewis Wolpert

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
~ Marie Curie

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
~ Albert Einstein

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.  
~ Francis Darwin

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
~ Isaac Asimov

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.
~ Mark Twain

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
~ Carl Sagan

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
~ Albert Einstein

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
~ Thomas H. Huxley

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau

Chance favors the prepared mind.
~ Louis Pasteur

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