Richard Smalley Quotes

Essentially, every technology you have ever heard of, where electrons move from here to there, has the potential to be revolutionized by the availability of molecular wires made up of carbon. Organic chemists will start building devices. Molecular electronics could become reality.

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• My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Together

• Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Up
  • Music
  • Important

• One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Cry

• How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Humanity

• I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Book
  • Doing
  • Year

• I believe the gun has no power at all.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Gun

• Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Good
  • Water

• From the IRS standpoint, 15,000 new employees have to be added just to, you know, administer ObamaCare and look at the tax implications.

  

  Jeff Fitzgerald

• I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Equality

• If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I tried,' and get on with it.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • People
  • May

• We thought we were going to go up against SNL on Saturday Nights - that would have changed things so much that it's almost impossible to speculate what might have happened.

  

  David Wain
  • Up
  • Saturday

• Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. People spend when they're young.

  

  Christoffel Wiese
  • People

• I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

  

  Kesha
  • Time
  • Single
  • Cool

• When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.

  

  Jeremy Gilley
  • Humanity

• I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • Free

• I think the best way to have confidence is not to allow everyone else's insecurities to be your own.

  

  Jessie J
  • Confidence

• Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • People
  • American
  • Alone

• I will not feel like I've made it until the day I retire from basketball because there's something that I can always get better at, and there's always somebody better, and that's what drives me.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Basketball

• What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • God
  • Heart
  • Bad

• When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

  

  Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Interesting
  • Attention

• Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Worst
  • Hunger
  • Bring

• I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.

  

  William Gibson
  • Technology
  • Emerging
  • Saddened

• In short, there are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on justice, not on injustice; on public tranquility, not on violence; on freedom, not on enslavement.

  

  Edmund Ezra Day
  • Hope
  • Violence
  • Leadership

• Essentially, every technology you have ever heard of, where electrons move from here to there, has the potential to be revolutionized by the availability of molecular wires made up of carbon. Organic chemists will start building devices. Molecular electronics could become reality.

  

  Richard Smalley
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