Steven Chu Quotes

#1. So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.

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#2. The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

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#3. I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

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#4. My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.

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#5. Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

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#6. Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.

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#7. I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

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#8. While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are enormous. Prudent risk management does not equate uncertainty with inaction.

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#9. I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [ ... ] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

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#10. I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

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#11. The ideal protective layer for a lithium metal anode needs to be chemically stable to protect against the chemical reactions with the electrolyte and mechanically strong to withstand the expansion of the lithium during charge,

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#12. Since I walked in the door as secretary of energy, I've been doing everything in our powers to do what we can to reduce these gas prices ... So, of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up; we want it to go down.

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#13. Sustainable energy is the equivalent of the U.S. moon shot.

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#14. There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.

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#15. Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

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#16. Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.

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#17. As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.

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#18. If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage ... we would look at considering perhaps duties that would offset that cost.

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#19. I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, That's nice - and when are you going to see me next?

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#20. Pick the right sized pot, don't pick a pot five times bigger, twice as big.

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#21. Coal is My Worst Nightmare.

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#22. If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.

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#23. At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins.

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#24. What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.

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#25. Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.

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#26. However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.

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#27. Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.

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#28. Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this works, how that works ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

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#29. By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

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