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I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it…

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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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Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive. — Robert Carlyle
Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality. — James A. Garfield
...probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off… — Andrew Revkin
For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed,… — Harry A. Blackmun
Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged.… — Ann Althouse
Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others. — Abraham Zaleznik
Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite… — Unknown Author
The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice. — Leon Panetta
I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This,… — Charles Darwin
The fate of hundreds of thousands of species on this planet may be decided in the next decade. To slow the rush… — Eban Goodstein

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