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Top 20 Steven Chu Quotes (2025 Update)

Steven Chu Quote: “As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.”

1. “As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.”

Steven Chu Quote: “Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d’etre.”

2. “Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d’etre.”

Steven Chu Quote: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”

3. “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”

Steven Chu Quote: “My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.”

4. “My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.”

Steven Chu Quote: “If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.”

5. “If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.”

Steven Chu Quote: “Coal is My Worst Nightmare.”

6. “Coal is My Worst Nightmare.”

Steven Chu Quote: “Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.”

7. “Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.”

Steven Chu Quote: “While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don’t change our course are enormous. Prudent risk management does not equate uncertainty with inaction.”

8. “While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don’t change our course are enormous. Prudent risk management does not equate uncertainty with inaction.”

Steven Chu Quote: “By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.”

9. “By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.”

Steven Chu Quote: “The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.”

10. “The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.”

Steven Chu Quote: “Of course we don’t want the price of gasoline to go up, we want it to go down.”

11. “Of course we don’t want the price of gasoline to go up, we want it to go down.”

Steven Chu Quote: “Pick the right sized pot, don’t pick a pot five times bigger, twice as big.”

12. “Pick the right sized pot, don’t pick a pot five times bigger, twice as big.”

Steven Chu Quote: “Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.”

13. “Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.”

Steven Chu Quote: “I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.”

14. “I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.”

Steven Chu Quote: “So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It’s not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It’s not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.”

15. “So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It’s not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It’s not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.”

Steven Chu Quote: “Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.”

16. “Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.”

Steven Chu Quote: “I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.”

17. “I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.”

Steven Chu Quote: “Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.”

18. “Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.”

Steven Chu Quote: “At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins.”

19. “At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins.”

$Steven Chu Quote: “What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.”$

20. “What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.”

Steven Chu Quote: “However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.”

21. “However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.”

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