Alan King

When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to get even. One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, 'It's a little cloudy.' I took the tube from her and said, 'Let me run it through again,' and drank it. The nurse fainted.

American Comedian

Christopher Columbus

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

Italian Explorer

Joan Crawford

The Democratic party is one that I've always observed. I have struggled greatly in life from the day I was born, and I am honored to be a part of something that focuses on working class citizens and molds them into a proud specimen.

American Actress

John Malkovich

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

American Actor

Said Nursi

In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.

Turkish Theologian

George Bentham

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.

English Scientist

Jack Horner

Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

American Scientist

Janet Yellen

I've been collecting rocks since I was 8 and have over 200 different specimens.

American Public Servant

Andre Leon Talley

First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.

American Editor

Dick Cavett

American Entertainer

Use 'specimen' to represent a wider category, indicating a typical example.

Generalization Cue

'Specimen' often refers to a physical item, not abstract concepts.

Physical Objects

Specimens are typically used for display or study to illustrate a point.

Display Purpose

In science, 'specimen' connotes rigor and precision; it's a subject of careful study.

Research Context

Specimens in science are often collected from their natural environment.

Collectable Item

The origin of scientific specimens is crucial for credibility in research.

Source Identification

In medicine, 'specimen' implies a sample is taken for diagnostic tests.

Medical Testing

Medical specimens must be handled per safety protocols to avoid contamination.

Handled with Care

Specimens in medical contexts are often subject to confidentiality and privacy.

Privacy Matters

 somebody gave it a species name and there's a specimen sitting in a Natural History Museum someplace my passion happens to be leeches and I am the leech guy I'd like you all to sort of just think in your heads right now what is a leech and what do you think about leeches and then I'm gonna try to

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 a place called the Kem Kem. It's a difficult place to work in. You have to deal with sandstorms and snakes and scorpions, and it's very difficult to find good fossils there. But our hard work paid off. We discovered many incredible specimens. There's the largest dinosaur bone

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 these are incredibly rare here the simple fact that they're so beautiful that collectors will pay immense prices for them apparently if you can get a live specimen to japan they've been worth about as much as a thousand us dollars each

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 you'd find windows into amazing worlds. This maze of halls and laboratories is a scientific sanctuary that houses a seemingly endless variety of specimens. Here, researchers work to unravel mysteries of evolution, cosmic origins,

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 another new undescribed comb jelly although specimens have been brought to the surface it's only been seen alive through the windows of deep sea craft like this it uses a pair of long retractable tentacles to catch fish

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 She had a hunch that this strange, 1.5 meter long specimen was important but couldn't preserve it in time to be studied and had it taxidermied. When she finally was able to reach J.L.B. Smith, a local fish expert,

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 and she said I want to be part of this very emphatically and told me about her diseases and her history and I said well you're a walking pathology specimen not an Anatomy specimen we're trying to

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 You are the cargo director on the maiden voyage of the S.S. Buoyant, and you've agreed to transport several tanks containing the last specimens of a critically endangered fish species

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 behind the scenes at kew gardens in london the underground fungarium collection houses over a million specimens which have come from all over the world

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 it was almost as if a museum specimen had been carefully laid out on the sea floor