Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science. — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science. — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this… — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will… — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter. — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics… — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science. — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to… — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with… — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the… — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
