The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it,…

- George M. Whitesides

Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.

- George M. Whitesides

Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where…

- George M. Whitesides