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"You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third."

K. Eric Drexler on Respect

More quotes about Respect

• "An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Respect

• "Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."

  Albert Einstein on Respect

• "Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

  Albert Einstein on Respect

• "Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."

  Malcolm X on Respect

• "If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."

  Abraham Lincoln on Respect

More quotes by K. Eric Drexler

• "I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things."

• "I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things."

• "Any powerful technology can be abused."

• "My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race."

• "But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth."