Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some very good science, but when science ran into ideology, it had trouble. Science flourishes best in a democracy. — 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
