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15 quotes by Steven Chu

Steven Chu Chinese 朱棣文 Hanyu Pinyin Zhū Dìwén Transcriptions Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhū Dìwén Steven Chu (Chinese: 朱棣文; pinyin: Zhū Dìwén, born February 28, 1948 ) is an American physicist who served as the 12th United States Secretary of Energy from 2009 to 2013. Chu is known for his research at Bell Labs in cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, along with his scientific colleagues...
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Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

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

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I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary... →

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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... →

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There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school... →

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

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

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I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school... →

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So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So... →

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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... →

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However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin... →

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At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least... →

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Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a... →

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