I've always been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, who articulated his Dream of an America where people are judged not by skin color but "by the content of their character." In the scientific world, people are judged by the… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
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… — Steven Chu Copy Share
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… — Steven Chu Copy Share
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… — Steven Chu Copy Share
Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of… — Steven Chu Copy Share
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s in science… — Steven Chu Copy Share
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,… — Steven Chu Copy Share
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision"… — Steven Chu Copy Share
The biggest gains, in terms of decreasing the country's energy bill, the amount of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere, and our dependency… — Steven Chu Copy Share
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that… — Steven Chu Copy Share
In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I… — Steven Chu Copy Share
The ideal protective layer for a lithium metal anode needs to be chemically stable to protect against the chemical reactions with the electrolyte and… — Steven Chu Copy Share
By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design… — Steven Chu Copy Share
Of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up, we want it to go down. — Steven Chu Copy Share
My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we… — Steven Chu Copy Share
