There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.
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One thing I liked about being in microscopy is it gets you out of your box constantly because there's such a diverse range of applications.
We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small; we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the micro-sphere.
The eventual goal is to marry all of my work together to make a high-speed, high-resolution, low-impact tool that can look deep inside biological systems.
Like you can't have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on Saturday, you can't make a microscope that can do it all.
I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.
And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
Indeed, we often mark our progress in science by improvements in imaging.
I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use.
Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.
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