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> [It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-eric-drexler/it-s-a-lot-easier-to-see-at-least-in-some-cases-what-the-long-term/)

[K. Eric Drexler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-eric-drexler/)

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## More by K. Eric Drexler

> [Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-eric-drexler/plants-with-leaves-no-more-efficient-than-today-s-solar-cells-could/)

[K. Eric Drexler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-eric-drexler/)

> [“The Chemical Abstracts Service of the American Chemical Society maintains a registry that includes (at the moment) descriptions of 67,883,986 “commercially available chemicals” (many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-eric-drexler/the-chemical-abstracts-service-of-the-american-chemical-society/)

[K. Eric Drexler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-eric-drexler/)

> [My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-eric-drexler/my-greatest-concern-is-that-the-emergence-of-this-technology-without/)

[K. Eric Drexler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-eric-drexler/)

> [In a sense, artificial intelligence will be the ultimate tool because it will help us build all possible tools.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-eric-drexler/in-a-sense-artificial-intelligence-will-be-the-ultimate-tool-because/)

[K. Eric Drexler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-eric-drexler/)

> [You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-eric-drexler/you-can-find-academic-and-industrial-groups-doing-some-relevant-work/)

[K. Eric Drexler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-eric-drexler/)

> [My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-eric-drexler/my-work-at-mit-had-focused-on-what-we-could-build-in-space-once-we/)

[K. Eric Drexler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-eric-drexler/)

> [On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-eric-drexler/on-the-molecular-scale-you-find-it-s-reasonable-to-have-a-machine/)

[K. Eric Drexler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-eric-drexler/)

> [Nature draws no line between living and nonliving.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-eric-drexler/nature-draws-no-line-between-living-and-nonliving/)

[K. Eric Drexler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-eric-drexler/)

> [“Within the microblock-size range, larger blocks enable faster assembly, while smaller blocks enable finer-grained customization, and there’s no reason to limit choices to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-eric-drexler/within-the-microblock-size-range-larger-blocks-enable-faster-assembly/)

[K. Eric Drexler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-eric-drexler/)

> [Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-eric-drexler/today-we-have-big-crude-instruments-guided-by-intelligent-surgeons/)

[K. Eric Drexler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-eric-drexler/)

> [I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-eric-drexler/i-had-been-impressed-by-the-fact-that-biological-systems-were-based/)

[K. Eric Drexler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-eric-drexler/)

> [“Tsiolkovsky had no need for a lathe or a drill because he produced his results using the traditional tools of design engineering: pen and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-eric-drexler/tsiolkovsky-had-no-need-for-a-lathe-or-a-drill-because-he-produced/)

[K. Eric Drexler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-eric-drexler/)

> [“Deep in the nanoscale-size range, however, engineering encounters ultimate, atomic constraints on the size of even the simplest devices. Gears, shafts, and bearings, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-eric-drexler/deep-in-the-nanoscale-size-range-however-engineering-encounters/)

[K. Eric Drexler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-eric-drexler/)

> [Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-eric-drexler/likewise-nanotechnology-will-once-it-gets-under-way-depend-on-the/)

[K. Eric Drexler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-eric-drexler/)

> [But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-eric-drexler/but-if-we-can-manage-it-so-people-don-t-have-things-forced-on-them/)

[K. Eric Drexler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-eric-drexler/)

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