--- title: "Best Steven Chu Quotes" description: "Steven Chu is an American physicist and former government official. He is a Nobel laureate and was the 12th U.S. secretary of energy." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-steven-chu-87456.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Steven Chu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-steven-chu-87456.jpg) # Steven Chu (1948) Physicist **43** quotes in **458** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Steven Chu is a physicist, best known for *Build Muscle Lose Fat*. ## Quick Facts About Steven Chu Born February 28, 1948 Profession Physicist Notable works Build Muscle Lose Fat ## About Steven Chu Steven Chu is an American physicist and former government official. He is a Nobel laureate and was the 12th U.S. secretary of energy. He is currently the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University. He is known for his research at the University of California, Berkeley, and his research at Bell Laboratories and Stanford University regarding the cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, for which he shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips. ## Quotes by Steven Chu · Page 2 > [My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/my-physics-teacher-thomas-miner-was-particularly-gifted-to-this-day-i/) [Steven Chu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-chu/) [Acceleration](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acceleration/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/395/steven-chu-15304_acceleration_my-physics-teacher-thomas-miner-was-part_1051158.jpg) > [The biggest gains, in terms of decreasing the country's energy bill, the amount of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/the-biggest-gains-in-terms-of-decreasing-the-country-s-energy-bill/) [Steven Chu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-chu/) [Amount](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amount/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/941/steven-chu-15304_amount_the-biggest-gains-in-terms-of-decreasing_726185.jpg) > [A cap and trade bill will likely increase the costs of electricity. . . . These costs will be passed on to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-chu/a-cap-and-trade-bill-will-likely-increase-the-costs-of-electricity/) [Steven Chu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-chu/) [Bills](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bills/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3e/steven-chu-15304_bills_a-cap-and-trade-bill-will-likely-increas_2695713.jpg) ## Steven Chu by topic [Climate (14)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/climate/steven-chu/) [Energy (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/energy/steven-chu/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-chu/#itemlist", "name": "Steven Chu Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. 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