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I was born in 1960 and can still tell you the name of every astronaut from Mercury to Apollo. If I had a chance, I'd love to go into space on one of the privately developed space crafts.

~Eric Betzig

Topics: Apollo Astronaut Born Chance Crafts Developed Every Go Had Love Mercury Name Privately Space Still Tell You I Was Born

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I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.

~Eric Betzig

Topics: Basic Being Curiosity Lab Missed

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There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.

~Eric Betzig

Topics: Always Better Engineer Make Something

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It's nice to be able to look at one protein, but life is driven by the interactions between proteins, so it's really essential to be able to see multiple proteins at a time to understand these interactions.

~Eric Betzig

Topics: Able Between Driven Essential Interactions Life Look Multiple Nice Protein Proteins Really See Time Understand

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One thing I liked about being in microscopy is it gets you out of your box constantly because there's such a diverse range of applications.

~Eric Betzig

Topics: About Applications Because Being Box Constantly Diverse Gets Liked One Thing Out Range Thing You Your

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In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies that we see.

~Eric Betzig

Topics: Anywhere Cell Create Essence Forty Hundred Imaging Movies Same See Thousand Thousand Times Times

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You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.

~Eric Betzig

Topics: Back Chance Day-To-Day Get Never Run Sit Subconscious Tied Up Wild You Your

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I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

~Eric Betzig

Topics: Academic Like Loved Missed Realized Really Science Structure

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Like you can't have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on Saturday, you can't make a microscope that can do it all.

~Eric Betzig

Topics: Car Friday Grand Kids Like Make Microscope Saturday Schools Take Win You

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We can track and see the production of single molecules, trace them and see how they assemble into structures.

~Eric Betzig

Topics: Assemble How Molecules Production See Single Structures Them Trace Track

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: January 13th, 1960

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