"One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing……" — Ralph Merkle
"One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance."
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Ralph Merkle
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29 Quotes by Ralph Merkle
Ralph Merkle has 29 quotes on this site.
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The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will…
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If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.
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Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.
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Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either…
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Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if…
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Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were…
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As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there…
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One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials,…
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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We see an entire planet which has many limitations.
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There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in…
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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Confine yourself to the present.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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