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George M. Whitesides

American Scientist

Born: Aug 3, 1939

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Science has the potential to solve all kinds of problems, but it depends on what a society wants to accomplish. George M. Whitesides

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We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes. George M. Whitesides

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The number of people who really work creatively on new sources of water isn't enormously large for the reason that I don't think people have very many ideas on how to get fundamentally new sources of water. We sort of think we've thought that problem through. I hope that's not true. George M. Whitesides

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One of the issues in electronics is that we work only in two scales - transistors and collections of transistors - and that's the device. But to take full advantage of nano, we're going to have to think about that full hierarchy of levels of structure. George M. Whitesides

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