Able Quote by K. Eric Drexler

The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was…

— Ralph Merkle

I feel fortunate to live in a time when a formerly unimaginable possibility of predictably programming the atoms comprising our existence is now within…

— Bryan Johnson

Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth.

— Martin Rees

I wanted to rewrite the code of life, to make new molecular machines that would solve human problems.

— Frances Arnold

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build…

— K. Eric Drexler

Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on…

— K. Eric Drexler

Nanotechnology will be responsible for the largest evolutionary change in mankind. Life as we know it 'will' become extinct. Humans will be cured.

— Carl Stoynoff

What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them?

— Richard P. Feynman

It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The atom must…

— Ernst Mach

“Clearly, if atoms can be assembled to make humans, the laws of physics also permit the construction of vastly more advanced forms of sentient…

— Max Tegmark

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

— William Godwin

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

— Albert Einstein