Like you can't have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on Saturday, you can't make a microscope that can do it all. — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
One thing I liked about being in microscopy is it gets you out of your box constantly because there's such a diverse range of… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
What was shocking to us was that by spreading the energy out across seven beams instead of one, the phototoxicity went way down. — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
I'm spoiled. All of my adult jobs have left me with complete freedom to come up with what I wanted. — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
I was born in 1960 and can still tell you the name of every astronaut from Mercury to Apollo. If I had a chance,… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the only real asset one has is one's reputation, right? I mean, any company and institution can go belly up at… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make an analogy that each scientific paper is like putting out another record. And some people have careers that are nothing but… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
The eventual goal is to marry all of my work together to make a high-speed, high-resolution, low-impact tool that can look deep inside biological… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
The question was, 'Is there a way of minimizing the amount of damage you're doing so that you can then study cells in a… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
