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Barry Sharpless: Nobel Prize Conversations

Nobel Prize Conversations

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The Importance of Asking Questions

I was very struck by when you came to that water meeting we ran. You're asking the simple question, why is water blue? Why does it look blue? It's such a good question which is the sort of question that most people never ask even though they spend their life observing blue water and admiring it. There are so many questions in life like that, which either don't occur to us or if they do occur to us, we put them aside and don't bother to think about it more. Some of the things that we don't even know are life and death right now. That's the way that our bodies work. We'll no doubt surprise everybody, but they'll

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