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Eric Betzig
Profession : Physicist
Birth : January 13, 1960
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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
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
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.
Eric Betzig
I was born in 1960 and can still tell you the name of every astronaut from Mercury to Apollo. If I had a chance, I'd love to go into space on one of the privately developed space crafts.
Eric Betzig
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
There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.
Eric Betzig
It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.
Eric Betzig
I don't like saying 'no' to people, and I'm going to have to learn how to say 'no' more.
Eric Betzig
Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.
Eric Betzig
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
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
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
Science goes through fads, and there are big ups and crashes.
Eric Betzig
I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.
Eric Betzig
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
One thing I liked about being in microscopy is it gets you out of your box constantly because there's such a diverse range of applications.
Eric Betzig
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
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
I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.
Eric Betzig
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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