Steven Chu Quotes

United States, Scientist
February 28, 1948

Steven Chu is an American physicist and a former government official. He is known for his research at Bell Labs and Stanford University regarding the cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, along with his scientific colleagues Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips.

What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.

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- Family
- Energy
- Costs
Of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up, we want it to go down.

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- Price
- Gasoline
- Go Down

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

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Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.

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- Effect
- Cars
- Gas
The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

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- Intensity
- Atoms
- Moth
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

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If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.

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Coal is my worst nightmare.

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- Worst
- Nightmare
- Coal

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

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Sustainable energy is the equivalent of the U.S. moon shot.

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- Energy
- Moon
- Equivalent