But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.
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Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.
Catalysts offer the promise of making chemical transformations far less polluting.
The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.
We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.
The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.
The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.
The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce.
As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.
When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design.
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