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Our reality is illusion: We don't know for sure what's out there.

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Electrons know two verbs: seek and avoid. They seek the positive charges of atomic nuclei; they avoid the negative charges of other electrons. That is almost all they know.

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Molecules — like ants, lemmings, herring, people — are happiest when surrounded by their own kind.

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Order is repetition, regularity, symmetry, simplicity. It forms the spine of our efforts to measure, control, and understand.

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We know light best in its diluted form: a gentle rain of photons falling from the sun that illuminates and warms. More concentrated, light is a furnace and a terror.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

George M. Whitesides

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Born: August 3, 1939 (age 85)
Bio: George M. Whitesides is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He is best known for his work in the areas of NMR spectroscopy, organometallic chemistry, molecular self-assembly, soft lithography, microfabrication, microfluidics, and nanotechnology.

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