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George M. Whitesides

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Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems.

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We academics – I am an academic – we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it’s fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you’re not responsible for outcomes.

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

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April 29, 2024

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

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April 29, 2024

We academics – I am an academic – we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it’s fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you’re not responsible for outcomes.

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