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Sometimes I make an analogy that each scientific paper is like putting out another record. And some people have careers that are nothing but a one-hit wonder. And then there are people who are only appreciated by aficionados but largely forgotten by the wider community.
- Eric Betzig
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Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way.
- Eric Betzig
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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.
- Eric Betzig
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Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.
- Eric Betzig
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It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.
- Eric Betzig
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In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies that we see.
- Eric Betzig
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There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.
- Eric Betzig
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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.
- Eric Betzig
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Like you can't have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on Saturday, you can't make a microscope that can do it all.
- Eric Betzig
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I don't like saying 'no' to people, and I'm going to have to learn how to say 'no' more.
- Eric Betzig
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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.
- Eric Betzig
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It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.
- Eric Betzig
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You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.
- Eric Betzig
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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.
- Eric Betzig
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#World
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.
- Eric Betzig
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