“It's often easier for engineers and scientists to work on the next bio drug or MP3 player,but there are some beautifully simple problems that many people in developing countries face that can have simple, low-cost solutions. After tinkering away in the lab we stumbled upon a simple solar cell manufacturing process involving an inkjet printer, something like nail polish, and a pizza oven that has been deemed the iJET cell concept that I am working on today. Working on a renewable energy technology that could simultaneously address climate change and poverty for some of the 2 billion people worldwide who currently lack access to a reliable source of electricity.”
The Australian, Emerging leaders - Science, May 04, 2009
Charles Darwin
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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Stephen Hawking
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
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