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Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria could…

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Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough…
The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That…
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design…
Any powerful technology can be abused.
Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into…
If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like…
I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of…
After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that…
It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they…
And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times…
An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that…
But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every…

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Nature appears not to have intended that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen. — Unknown Author
Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough… — K. Eric Drexler
But look around at this world, how perfectly it's made. Flowers can't move, yet the insects come to them and spread their… — Nahoko Uehashi
Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be… — George Iles
In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His… — M. Russell Ballard
We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible… — Deena Metzger
The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind… — Joseph Campbell
I don’t want to explain to somebody what pollen is. That is the secret and the beauty and the power and the… — Wolfgang Laib
I am not afraid of beauty, unlike most artists today. The pollen, the milk, the beeswax, they have a beauty that is… — Wolfgang Laib
Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of… — Hilda Doolittle
Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another. — Slash Coleman
Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why. — Stephen Vincent Benet

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