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Eric Betzig
American
Physicist
Born:
Jan 13
,
1960
Always
Me
People
Think
Time
You
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In my opinion, the only real asset one has is one's reputation, right? I mean, any company and institution can go belly up at any time. But if you have a good reputation, you know, you can usually find somebody who can - who thinks they can use what you have to offer.
Eric Betzig
Time
Good
You
Somebody
Reputation
Find
Good Reputation
Only
Institution
Know
Opinion
Real
Go
Up
Offer
Any
In My Opinion
Mean
Use
Who
Company
Asset
Right
Belly
Thinks
It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.
Eric Betzig
Technology
Broader
Adoption
High-Tech
Takes
Prototype
Huge
Huge Amount
Effort
Move
Successful
Amount
Imaging
The eventual goal is to marry all of my work together to make a high-speed, high-resolution, low-impact tool that can look deep inside biological systems.
Eric Betzig
Work
Together
Tool
Systems
Marry
Inside
High-Speed
Look
Make
Goal
Work Together
Deep
Deep Inside
Eventual
Biological
Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way.
Eric Betzig
You
People
Better
Too Much
Own
Sense
Thinking
Too
Honestly
Other
Way
Having
Better Off
Poisoned
Feel
Like
Read
Because
Makes
Scientific
Making
Off
Going
Literature
Much
Your
Start
Vague
When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time - World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound.
Eric Betzig
War
Music
Time
Creativity
Innovation
Problem
World
Sense
Earth
Solved
Because
Sound
Eras
Optimism
Listen
Maybe
Just
Romance
Different
Biggest
Biggest Problem
Much
Different Things
Things
World War
World War II
I was born in 1960 and can still tell you the name of every astronaut from Mercury to Apollo. If I had a chance, I'd love to go into space on one of the privately developed space crafts.
Eric Betzig
Love
You
Space
Every
Astronaut
Tell
Born
Had
Developed
Mercury
Name
Still
Go
Privately
Crafts
Apollo
Chance
Science goes through fads, and there are big ups and crashes.
Eric Betzig
Science
Big
Through
Fads
Goes
Ups
Crashes
There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.
Eric Betzig
Better
Engineer
Something
Make
Always
It's nice to be able to look at one protein, but life is driven by the interactions between proteins, so it's really essential to be able to see multiple proteins at a time to understand these interactions.
Eric Betzig
Life
Time
Nice
See
Able
Driven
Between
Look
Protein
Proteins
Understand
Essential
Interactions
Really
Multiple
You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.
Eric Betzig
You
Subconscious
Sit
Wild
Back
Run
Minutiae
Never
Day-To-Day
Tied
Up
Get
Your
Chance
You need a continuous picture of how things are evolving, and not a slow series of snapshots where you don't know how frame A is related to frame B.
Eric Betzig
You
Slow
Picture
Related
Frame
Evolving
Know
How
Continuous
Where
Series
Things
Need
Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.
Eric Betzig
You
Happy
Cancer
Invention
Become
Every
Think
Baby
President
Out
Stays
New
Like
End
Cure
May
Jail
Just
In The End
The question was, 'Is there a way of minimizing the amount of damage you're doing so that you can then study cells in a physiological manner while also studying them at high spatial and temporal resolution for a long time?'
Eric Betzig
Time
You
Long
Long Time
Way
High
Temporal
Physiological
Study
Studying
Also
Doing
Question
Cells
While
Them
Then
Manner
Spatial
Amount
Damage
Resolution
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