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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’m spoiled. All of my adult jobs have left me with complete freedom to come up with what I wanted. Eric Betzig Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
You need a continuous picture of how things are evolving, and not a slow series of snapshots where you don’t know how frame A is related to frame B. Eric Betzig Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
