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While I'm an artist, I'm also a scientist, and I direct a laboratory that researches nanotechnology, which is the science of building things with ultratiny building blocks,
thousands
of times smaller even than the width of a human hair.
And it turns out that trying to understand the darkness is something that's fascinated humans for
thousands
of years, maybe forever.
Effects like these take
thousands
of hours and hundreds of really talented artists.
We were surrounded by
thousands
of acres of cotton fields.
We were standing on the edge of
thousands
of acres of cotton.
It took
thousands
of people and 44 years to get the Hubble Space Telescope from an idea into orbit.
I think about the
thousands
of people who built Hubble and how many failures they endured.
Look, tens of
thousands
of people died from antibiotic-resistant superbugs in North America just last year.
And a lot of people talk about trucks and moving bees, and that being bad, but we've done that for
thousands
of years.
They traveled all around Europe and sold by the hundreds or by the
thousands.
And human beings, their physique and character, has not changed for
thousands
of years.
That is, they require interest rates in the hundred or
thousands
of percents in order to delay gratification and wait until next month for the extra 10 dollars.
Those suspected of witchcraft were questioned and often tortured— and under torture,
thousands
of innocent people confessed to witchcraft and implicated others in turn.
On opening day,
thousands
of Londoners came out, and something happened.
I got
thousands
of letters and emails.
So what did
thousands
of readers do?
So I can't respond to the
thousands
of emails I get with my own five-step plan to divine health and magical floating feelings.
To do that, you've got to actually transport them
thousands
of miles out of the desert.
But what about after technology improves and diffuses and
thousands
of life science grad students are enabled?
At some point in that time frame, these circles are going to intersect, because we're now starting to talk about hundreds of
thousands
of people throughout the world.
Our advances in understanding protein folding and how to design proteins, coupled with the decreasing cost of gene synthesis and the Moore's law increase in computing power, now enable us to design tens of
thousands
of new proteins, with new shapes and new functions, on the computer, and encode each one of those in a synthetic gene.
Second, we're going far beyond nature's limited alphabet of just 20 amino acids to design new therapeutic candidates for conditions such as chronic pain, using an alphabet of
thousands
of amino acids.
It involved me being searched for contrabands, changed from my ordinary clothes to the prison uniform, forced to squat on the ground, a posture that I soon came to learn would form the routine of the
thousands
of searches, number counts, that lay ahead of me.
I come as one, but I stand as 10,000, encouraged by the hard-edged hope that
thousands
of us have come together to reform and transform the criminal justice system, encouraged that we are doing our jobs as we are meant to do them.
Living in your genome is the history of our species, and you as an individual human being, where you're from, going back
thousands
and
thousands
and
thousands
of years, and that's now starting to be understood.
We have about a hundred, 120,000 others that don't appear to function every day, but represent this archival history of how we used to work as a species going back tens of
thousands
of years.
You can find out where your relatives come from; you can do your genealogy going back
thousands
of years.
There are
thousands
of microbes there.
Earth Witness would take this further, linking what you see with what
thousands
or millions of other people see around the world.
Now, as I suggested at the outset, there are
thousands
upon
thousands
of good ideas out there, so why have I spent the bulk of my time telling you about something that doesn't exist?
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