1661: George M. Whitesides
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2026/03/06
“The cell is a bag…filled with a Jell-O of reacting chemicals and somehow able to replicate itself.”
“While complexity can be beautiful, simplicity works better.”
“Bioinspiration — as a strategy for developing new ideas — is essentially limitless.”
“If you pick a good problem, nature does it for you.”
“You should go off and somehow work with someone who is actively an entrepreneur… for a couple of years…”
“Every field must periodically reinvent itself to remain vital.”
“…focused on… scientific papers, rather than on the solution of problems.”
“Users of technology are fundamentally not interested in technology — they are interested in solving their own problems.”
“LoC devices were more ‘test-beds-on-a-chip’ than working devices designed to solve real problems.”
“Microfluidics has the potential to influence subject areas from chemical synthesis and biological analysis to optics and information technology.”
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