Burton
Burton
government longer
It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.
bells intent people whistles
We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.
politics
It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?
hands visual
Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.
technology needs world
Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will require a marriage of science and technology with good international policy, something that is always hard to bring off. We need to get it right this time.
jobs ideas community
While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.
issues energy directors
Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.
new-york children march
I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.
mistake sometimes obsolescence
Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.
technology years interesting
In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.
moving long innovation
Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
innovation renewal laboratory
Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
stuff bad-stuff
I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.
attitude men fifteen
I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.