[Mitworld] New: Compton Lecture by Senator Kennedy, RLE 60th-Stephen Quake

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[A LIFE IN PUBLIC SERVICE]

Senator Kennedy delivers the 2007 Karl Taylor Compton Lecture, taking
on topics such as stem cell research, education, the space program,
while criticizing the Bush administration for "creating pseudo-science
and pseudo-reality".

SPEAKER:
Edward M. Kennedy
U.S. Senator, Massachusetts


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/452/>

[QUOTE]
"The political leaders who founded this university embraced progress.
They valued independent academic inquiry. They believed politics should
be influenced and informed by science, not the other way around."
-- Senator Edward M. Kennedy


EVENT HOST: The Office of the President of MIT
<http://web.mit.edu/hockfield/>

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[BIOLOGICAL LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION]

Though Stephen Quake's research is confined to the smallest of scales,
his achievements have already made a large impact on the study of
biology.

SPEAKER:
Stephen Quake
Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics
Co-Chair, Department of Bioengineering
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/451/>

[QUOTE]
"Many limits, even physical ones, are somewhat arbitrary. ... If you
expand your mind a little bit, you can find ways to go around them. The
initial limit is a philosophical one: we'll ask the question, is it
beyond the reach of physics to predict biology?"
-- Stephen Quake


EVENT HOST: Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT
<http://rleweb.mit.edu/>

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