28 Quotes by Eric Betzig

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

I'm spoiled. All of my adult jobs have left me with complete freedom to come up with what I wanted.

In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies that we see.

It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.

It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.

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.

Science goes through fads, and there are big ups and crashes.

There are many cells you could look at forever in 3D.

We can track and see the production of single molecules, trace them and see how they assemble into structures.