George M. Whitesides Quotes
Science has the potential to solve all kinds of problems, but it depends on what a society wants to accomplish.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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I wish I sang better.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
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I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
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New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
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I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.
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My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
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Science has the potential to solve all kinds of problems, but it depends on what a society wants to accomplish.
