Steven Chu Quotes & Sayings

“Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser 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.”

“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.”