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by rubidium 5036 days ago
Q: "What problems are being neglected?"

Whitesides: "I don't have strong feelings about that. There are so many problems in the world"

I've was recently at a conference with a bunch of Nobel Prize winners in Physics and Chemistry. I was asking them a similar question, and some version of Whitesides reply was what I almost always got.