Science quotes to ease you into Nanotechnology.
In March 1949, Popular Mechanics described the latest number cruncher: "Where a calculator like the Eniac is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 tubes and perhaps only weigh one and a half tons."
"With nanotechnology we'll be able to build surgical tools that are molecular, both in their size and in their precision. For the first time we'll be able to intervene at the scale where the damage actually occurs and to reverse that injury."
Dr. Ralph Merkle,
Researcher in Nanotechnology at Xerox Park.
"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft - and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. "
Werner von Braun
"Organic Chemistry: The practice of transmutting vile substances into publications." from The Last Word - The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary.
Brought to our attention by
Jesus M. Castagnetto Mizuaray,
Dept of Chemistry, NYU.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Sir Arthur Clarke.
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