Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way. — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that. — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage...we would look at considering perhaps duties that would… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Since I walked in the door as secretary of energy, I've been doing everything in our powers to do what we can to reduce… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s in science… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century,… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision"… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
The biggest gains, in terms of decreasing the country's energy bill, the amount of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere, and our dependency… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
The ideal protective layer for a lithium metal anode needs to be chemically stable to protect against the chemical reactions with the electrolyte and… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
