Steven Chu Quotes

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• My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were…
• I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.
• 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…
• I've always been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, who articulated his Dream of an America where people are judged not by skin color but…
• If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants,…
• If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.
• I believe [the Department of Energy] should be judged not by the money we direct to a particular State or district, company, university or national…
• I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem…
• For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement…
• As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies…
• Coal is My Worst Nightmare.
• Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.
• What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.
• A cap and trade bill will likely increase the costs of electricity. . . . These costs will be passed on to the consumers. But…
• At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least…
• Suppose you had a small electrical fire and... a structural engineer [looked] at your home's wiring [and] reports that the wiring is "shot" and there…
• While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are…
• 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 on…
• Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven…
• I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch…

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