Literary notes about Laboratory (AI summary)
In literature, the word "laboratory" is employed in diverse ways that extend beyond its strict scientific definition. It can denote a literal space—for instance, as a venue for culinary experimentation in one narrative [1] or a chemical setting in gothic detective tales [2, 3]—while simultaneously evoking environments of mystery and danger, as an isolated room where dark experiments take place [4, 5]. Moreover, authors often rely on the laboratory as a metaphorical space where ideas and personal identities are tested and transformed, suggesting that, much like the scientific realm, human life is an arena for continuous trial and discovery [6, 7]. In some texts, even the laboratory becomes a symbol of innovation and risk, hinting at both progress and peril in the pursuit of knowledge [8, 9].
- And so the next day Gideon Spilett became Neb’s assistant and was installed in his culinary laboratory.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne - “A fellow who is working at the chemical laboratory up at the hospital.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle - It was up at the top of the house, in Mr. Bartholomew Sholto's chemical laboratory.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle - The next morning, at daybreak, I summoned sufficient courage and unlocked the door of my laboratory.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Then the old walls of the laboratory came round me.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells - The laboratory is a discovery of the condition under which labor may become intellectually fruitful and not merely externally productive.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - All creative scientists know that the true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions they uncover the laws of truth.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - Come someday to my laboratory and see the unequivocable testimony of the crescograph.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - “I fancy that’s exactly what would happen to you if you were to set up your laboratory in the States.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
