Steven Chu Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

More Steven Chu quote about:

“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.”
-- Steven Chu

#Curiosity #Branches #Way
“As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.”
-- Steven Chu

#Lying #Opportunity #Age
“Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.”
-- Steven Chu

#My Family
“I've always been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, who articulated his Dream of an America where people are judged not by skin color but "by the content of their character." In the scientific world, people are judged by the content of their ideas. Advances are made with new insights, but the final arbitrator of any point of view are experiments that seek the unbiased truth, not information cherry picked to support a particular point of view.”
-- Steven Chu

#Dream #Kings #Character
“Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
-- Steven Chu

#Europe #Gasoline #Levels
“So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.”
-- Steven Chu

#Agriculture #World #Today
“I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.”
-- Steven Chu

#Adventure #Intellectual #Funny Travel
“The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.”
-- Steven Chu

#Lasers #Atoms #Intensity
“Sustainable energy is the equivalent of the U.S. moon shot.”
-- Steven Chu

#Moon #Sustainable Energy #Energy
“Just refrigerator efficiency saves more energy than all that we're generating from renewables, excluding hydroelectric power... I cannot impress upon you how important energy efficiency is. It doesn't mean you eat lukewarm food and your beers are lukewarm. You can still have it; you just make a better thing”
-- Steven Chu

#Mean #Beer #Important
“In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. The living room rug was frequently littered with hundreds of metal â€œgirdersâ€ and tiny nuts and bolts surrounding half-finished structures. An understanding mother allowed me to keep the projects going for days on end.”
-- Steven Chu

#Summer #Mother #Moving
“By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.”
-- Steven Chu

#Moving #Numbers #Design
“If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage...we would look at considering perhaps duties that would offset that cost.”
-- Steven Chu

#Country #Cost #Looks
“Of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up, we want it to go down.”
-- Steven Chu

#Gasoline #Want
“Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.”
-- Steven Chu

#Firsts #Remember #Exciting
“However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.”
-- Steven Chu

#Parent #United States #Married
“Pick the right sized pot, don't pick a pot five times bigger, twice as big.”
-- Steven Chu

#Pot #Bigs #Bigger
“I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, "That's nice - and when are you going to see me next?”
-- Steven Chu

#Mother #Morning #Nice
“I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.”
-- Steven Chu

#Basketball #Sports #Baseball
“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.”
-- Steven Chu

#Years #Light #Car
“If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants, clean water-the first tack that the lawyers use, among others things, and that companies use, is that it's going to drive the electricity bill up, drive the cost of cars up, drive everything up. It repeatedly has been demonstrated that once the engineers start thinking about it, it's actually far less than the original estimates. We should remember that when we hear this again, because you will hear it again.”
-- Steven Chu

#Technology #Thinking #Air
“If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.”
-- Steven Chu

#World #Dinosaurs #Next
“I believe [the Department of Energy] should be judged not by the money we direct to a particular State or district, company, university or national lab, but by the character of our decisions. The Department of Energy serves the country as a Department of Science, a Department of Innovation, and a Department of Nuclear Security.”
-- Steven Chu

#Country #Believe #Character
“I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem to be qualitatively different. Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. Instead of memorizing facts, we were asked to think in clear, logical steps. Beginning from a few intuitive postulates, far reaching consequences could be derived, and I took immediately to the sport of proving theorems.”
-- Steven Chu

#Sports #Adventure #Thinking
“For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement of gravity. The years of experience building things taught me skills that were directly applicable to the construction of the pendulum. Twenty-five years later, I was to develop a refined version of this measurement using laser-cooled atoms in an atomic fountain interferometer.”
-- Steven Chu

#Garden #Years #Skills
“Coal is My Worst Nightmare.”
-- Steven Chu

#Coal #Energy #Nightmare
“My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.”
-- Steven Chu

#Teacher #Fall #Simple
“The biggest gains, in terms of decreasing the country's energy bill, the amount of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere, and our dependency on foreign oil, will come from energy efficiency and conservation in the next 20 years. Make no doubt about it. That's where everybody who has really thought about the problem thinks the biggest gains can be and should be.”
-- Steven Chu

#Country #Thinking #Years
“While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are enormous. Prudent risk management does not equate uncertainty with inaction.”
-- Steven Chu

#Running #Risk #Prudent
“What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.”
-- Steven Chu

#Doe #Dollars #Cost

Top 20 Steven Chu Quotes 2021 Update Quotefancy

Steven Chu Quotes Quotesgram

You may also like:

Barack Obama
44th U.S. President
Carol Browner
Former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Charles Hard Townes
Physicist
Chen-Ning Yang
Physicist
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Physicist
Elaine Chao
Former United States Secretary of Labor
Eric Shinseki
Former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Ernest Lawrence
Nobel prize winner
Ernest Moniz
United States Secretary of Energy
Janet Napolitano
Former United States Secretary of Homeland Security
John Holdren
Professor
Ken Salazar
Former United States Secretary of the Interior
Lisa P. Jackson
Former Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Ray LaHood
Former United States Secretary of Transportation
Robert B. Laughlin
Professor
Tom Vilsack
United States Secretary of Agriculture
Tsung-Dao Lee
Physicist
William Daniel Phillips
Physicist
Wolfgang Ketterle
Physicist
Yuan T. Lee
Chemist