Steven Chu Quotes

My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.
Steven Chu

Teacher, Simple, Remember

At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins.
Steven Chu

Same, Emotions, Nobody

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.
Steven Chu

Education, Family, Merely

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.
Steven Chu

Remember, Exciting, Geometry

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.
Steven Chu

Rather, Adventure, Chore

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.
Steven Chu

Become, Higher, Intensity

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.
Steven Chu

Design, Happy, Moving

However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.
Steven Chu

Family, Parents, Married

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.
Steven Chu

Sports, School, Children

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.
Steven Chu

School, Brother, High

I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear.
Steven Chu

Remember, Face, Number

Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.
Steven Chu

Sea, State, Century

Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.
Steven Chu

Work, Time, Mother

So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.
Steven Chu

Today, Imagine, Boundaries

There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.
Steven Chu

School, Parents, Two

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Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: February 28, 1948

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