Top 18 Richard Smalley Quotes

#1. Until late in life, I was never quite good enough for my father, and I suppose that is part of what drives me even now, well after his death in 1992.

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#2. After a few years of intensive research, we found a way to use a pulsed laser directed into a nozzle to vaporize any material, allowing for the first time the atoms of any element in the periodic table to be produced cold in a supersonic beam.

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#3. Nature - how, we don't know - has technology that works in every living cell and that depends on every atom being precisely in the right spot. Enzymes are precise down to the last atom. They're molecules. You put the last atom in, and it's done. Nature does things with molecular perfection.

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#4. Carbon has this genius of making a chemically stable, two-dimensional, one-atom-thick membrane in a three-dimensional world. And that, I believe, is going to be very important in the future of chemistry and technology in general.

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#5. My interest in science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. degree studies in college while I was in my early teens.

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#6. If we are ever to cross the 100-nano barrier in electronics, we need to develop nano structures that let electrons move through, as they do through wires and semiconductors. And these structures must survive in the real world of air, water, boiling temperatures.

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#7. We'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a drum, and go fishing with it.

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#8. Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.

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#9. I was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 6, 1943, one year to the day before D-Day, the allied invasion at Normandy. The youngest of four children, I was brought up in a wonderfully stable, loving family of strong Midwestern values.

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#10. It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.

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#11. Diamond, for all its great beauty, is not nearly as interesting as the hexagonal plane of graphite. It is not nearly as interesting because we live in a three-dimensional space, and in diamond, each atom is surrounded in all three directions in space by a full coordination.

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#12. Be a scientist, save the world.

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#13. Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that biological evolution could not have occurred.

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#14. The more we understand what happens in living cells, the more incredibly powerful you realize things can be when they work from the bottom up, by interaction of one molecule and another.

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#15. If it ain't tubes, we don't do it.

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#16. In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks.

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#17. Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.

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#18. Essentially, every technology you have ever heard of, where electrons move from here to there, has the potential to be revolutionized by the availability of molecular wires made up of carbon. Organic chemists will start building devices. Molecular electronics could become reality.

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