![I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I could use. ... [The early efforts were] worked out almost wholly on top of my flat topped writing desk and with teacups, glasses, bottles and reagents I made myself.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-went-to-the-trash-pile-at-tuskegee-institute-and-started-my-laboratory-with-bot.jpg)
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