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> [ Suppose you had a small electrical fire and... a structural engineer \[looked\] at your home's wiring \[and\] reports that the wiring is "shot" and there is a 50% chance that your house would burn down in the next few years… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/suppose-you-had-a-small-electrical-fire-and-a-structural-engineer/)

[Steven Chu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-chu/)

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## More by Steven Chu

> [Coal is My Worst Nightmare.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/coal-is-my-worst-nightmare/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/there-were-only-two-other-chinese-families-in-this-town-of-25-000-but/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/if-other-countries-don-t-impose-a-cost-on-carbon-then-we-will-be-at-a/)

[Steven Chu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-chu/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/since-i-walked-in-the-door-as-secretary-of-energy-i-ve-been-doing/)

[Steven Chu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-chu/)

> [Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/occasionally-i-would-focus-on-a-particular-school-project-and-become/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/education-in-my-family-was-not-merely-emphasized-it-was-our-raison-d/)

[Steven Chu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-chu/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/let-me-state-what-the-official-ipcc-prediction-is-sea-levels-could-go/)

[Steven Chu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-chu/)

> [For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/for-the-better-part-of-my-last-semester-at-garden-city-high-i/)

[Steven Chu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-chu/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/the-biggest-gains-in-terms-of-decreasing-the-country-s-energy-bill/)

[Steven Chu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-chu/)

> [I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/i-approached-the-bulk-of-my-schoolwork-as-a-chore-rather-than-an/)

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> [In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/in-the-summer-after-kindergarten-a-friend-introduced-me-to-the-joys/)

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> [The ideal protective layer for a lithium metal anode needs to be chemically stable to protect against the chemical reactions with the electrolyte and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/the-ideal-protective-layer-for-a-lithium-metal-anode-needs-to-be/)

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> [By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/by-the-fourth-grade-i-graduated-to-an-erector-set-and-spent-many/)

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> [Of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up, we want it to go down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/of-course-we-don-t-want-the-price-of-gasoline-to-go-up-we-want-it-to/)

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> [My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/my-physics-teacher-thomas-miner-was-particularly-gifted-to-this-day-i/)

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