He was a person with extraordinary intelligence. But more than that, he was a real civic scientist, one who not only does great science, but uses that knowledge and fame to do good, to benefit society, and to try and educate the public. He had a palpable wish to solve some of the world's problems.

232

I see this as the greatest challenge we have as a nation.

231

That discourages young people from careers.

223

We've seen this problem coming for years. We need to do something about it now. If the current trend persists, we, as a country, will fall short.

221

In my view, this was a singular event in the history of nanotechnology, ... It not only created a whole new field of 'fullerene chemistry,' it immediately made feasible the notion of making things from the bottom up, just as physicist Richard Feynman had predicted 50 years earlier.

191

It's disturbing, ... This is the first time to the best of my knowledge through successive Republican and Democratic administrations, that the issue of scientific integrity has reared its head.

172

This is a war on behalf of science.

149

Cleaning, shopping, transportation _ we need to find new ways to support those kind of tasks that don't require a skilled work force.

131

CEOs of many corporations have begun to get the message that if the federal government continues to cut back on research funding, then this innovation is not going to happen any more, because these companies cannot afford to fund all the basic exploratory research that's needed at the front end.

122