Able Quote by Paola Antonelli

Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms.

— William Powell

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

— Francois Jacob

“The reason such prototypes are sustainable, however briefly, and ultimately important is not their capacity to do what the technology is meant to do;…

— Tim Wu

Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.

— George M. Whitesides

We're at a moment where people are rediscovering their ability to design, to create (engineer)and in essence, to become a true maker.

— Brit Morin

“Natural selection is not a master engineer, but a tinkerer. It doesn't produce the absolute perfection achievable by a designer starting from scratch, but…

— Jerry A. Coyne

Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in…

— George M. Whitesides

Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.

— Bill Bryson

Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

— Fred Brooks

I like building things from the bottom, from scratch.

— Skip Marley

In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that…

— John F. Kennedy

That's one of the advantages of being an inventor and tinkerer - I have everything I need to make what I need.

— Lonnie Johnson