We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes. — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
Because of climate changes, it's not just a question of producing energy. It's a question of producing energy in a way that we can… — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is… — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some very good science, but when science ran into… — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections. — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems. — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
The number of people who really work creatively on new sources of water isn't enormously large for the reason that I don't think people… — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in… — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
Science has the potential to solve all kinds of problems, but it depends on what a society wants to accomplish. — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world. — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
One of the issues in electronics is that we work only in two scales - transistors and collections of transistors - and that's the… — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with… — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
