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“Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.”

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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms…

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My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit.…

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On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works…

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Nature draws no line between living and nonliving.

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“Within the microblock-size range, larger blocks enable faster assembly, while smaller blocks enable finer-grained customization, and there’s no reason to limit choices to a…

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

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