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Because of climate changes, it's not just a question of producing energy. It's a question of producing energy in a way that we can live with in the long term. If you look at the available pieces, from conservation to nuclear, solar, whatever, and you put them all together, we can't do it.

~George M. Whitesides

Topics: Available Because Changes Climate Conservation Energy Just Live Long Long Term Look Nuclear Pieces Producing Put Question Solar Term Them Together Way Whatever You

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The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.

~George M. Whitesides

Topics: About Anything Anything Else Binary Catch Complicated Else Errors Good Good Things How Learn Lots More Numbers Once Possible Read Reading Representing Simple Simplest Things Very Virtue Way You

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Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where there is great demand to pack more components onto computer chips.

~George M. Whitesides

Topics: Atoms Chips Components Computer Demand Devices Electronics Going Great How Industry Learning Make More Much Onto Pack Small Where Work

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Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.

~George M. Whitesides

Topics: Academic Almost Bit Least Little Little Bit Obscure Pursued Reasons Simplicity World

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Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.

~George M. Whitesides

Topics: Always Atoms Been Business Connections Defined Other Precisely Putting Taking Them Together

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We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes.

~George M. Whitesides

Topics: About Academic Academics Am Complexity Fundamentally Love Many Nice Nice Thing Outcomes Papers Responsible Thing Ways Write You I Am

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The number of people who really work creatively on new sources of water isn't enormously large for the reason that I don't think people have very many ideas on how to get fundamentally new sources of water. We sort of think we've thought that problem through. I hope that's not true.

~George M. Whitesides

Topics: Creatively Fundamentally Get Hope How Ideas Large Many New Number People Problem Really Reason Sort Sources Think Thought Through True Very Water Who Work

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One of the issues in electronics is that we work only in two scales - transistors and collections of transistors - and that's the device. But to take full advantage of nano, we're going to have to think about that full hierarchy of levels of structure.

~George M. Whitesides

Topics: About Advantage Collections Device Electronics Full Full Advantage Going Hierarchy Issues Levels Only Scales Structure Take Think Two Work

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Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some very good science, but when science ran into ideology, it had trouble. Science flourishes best in a democracy.

~George M. Whitesides

Topics: Absolute Authority Best Democracy Did Flourishes Freedom Good Had Ideology Part Questioning Ran Science Some Soviets Trouble Very

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Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems.

~George M. Whitesides

Topics: Capitalism Economic Engine Little Long-Term Problems Projects Societal Value Wonderful

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: August 3rd, 1939

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