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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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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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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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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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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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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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 used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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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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I love, love, love music - have since I was a kid, and I'm still really into music – and I became a singer because I was too stupid to learn how to play an instrument, I guess.
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Fascism denies that numbers, as such, can direct human society. It denies that numbers can govern by means of periodical consultations: It asserts the unavoidable fruitful and beneficent inequality of men who cannot be leveled by any such mechanical and extrinsic device as universal suffrage.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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I got a promo of 'Nichts Muss' in what would have been 2002 or 2003 and fell totally in love with it after listening to it on an airplane that took me to Australia via Taipei and Kuala Lumpur.
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Science has the potential to solve all kinds of problems, but it depends on what a society wants to accomplish.
