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“I think that everybody needs to find meaning in life. I was hoping to do something that serves the needs of society.”

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I'm extremely happy the lithium-ion batteries helped communications around the world.

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The first car the family owned was a Model A.

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I enjoy the company and interaction of people at work.

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Cost, safety, energy density, rates of charge and discharge and cycle life are critical for battery-driven cars to be more widely adopted.

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My objective was never to make money. I wanted to contribute to human knowledge and betterment.

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I've had an interesting career, and I don't know if it was by chance or grace.

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Some of us are turtles; we crawl and struggle along, and we haven't maybe figured it out by the time we're 30. But the…

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Well as I say, don't believe everything that you read and don't be afraid to think and it is alright to understand what has…

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Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may discover their…

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I go to the lab and in order to interact with my postdoctoral students and try to see if I can shape them to…

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So a good teacher always makes you do something a little bit more than you thought that you could do.

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I'm old enough to know you can't close your mind to new ideas. You have to test out every possibility if you want something…

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