Zitat des Tages von Eric Betzig:
Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.
When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time - World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound.
Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.
I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.
I hate driving a bandwagon.
Frankly, I guess, I don't really understand why people, why so many people, are so risk averse. You know, there's always ways to wiggle your way out of any situation if you're motivated enough.
It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.
I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.
The eventual goal is to marry all of my work together to make a high-speed, high-resolution, low-impact tool that can look deep inside biological systems.
It's nice to be able to look at one protein, but life is driven by the interactions between proteins, so it's really essential to be able to see multiple proteins at a time to understand these interactions.
In my opinion, the only real asset one has is one's reputation, right? I mean, any company and institution can go belly up at any time. But if you have a good reputation, you know, you can usually find somebody who can - who thinks they can use what you have to offer.
There are many cells you could look at forever in 3D.
What was shocking to us was that by spreading the energy out across seven beams instead of one, the phototoxicity went way down.
