Richard Smalley Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. If it ain't tubes, we don't do it.

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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. Be a scientist, save the world.

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#9. 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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#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. The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.

Jose Rizal

#12. 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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#13. And the reason parenting is becoming increasingly crucial is that we now live in a world that is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.

Dennis Miller

#14. 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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#15. The man you're going to marry should be like a brick: strong, sturdy, supportive and almost always hard in your presence.

Nicole McKay

#16. 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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#17. I don't have a tolerance for long meetings. I generally expect to get things over with quickly.

Chris Liddell

#18. Learn good things from professionals but do not change like professional,it doesn't mean on what position they are..

Raghava

#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.

Charles E. Burchfield

#24. 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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#25. Because they're twins. they've got each other, wolf. This is a tough town in a tough world. But no matter how tough it get - our boys will always have each other.

Ben Elton