Volume 3, Issue 1 
1st Quarter, 2008


Nanotechnology and Life Sciences

Challa Kumar, Ph.D.

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I would like to end with two very important statements from Einstein that really summarize where all of these technologies are leading to. The first one is:

 "The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science.  He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.  To know what is impenetrable to us does really exist, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms.  This knowledge, this feeling is the center of true religiousness."

Another rather very profound statement from Einstein is:

"Our time is distinguished by wonderful achievements in the fields of scientific understanding and the technical applications of those insights. Who would not be cheered by this? But let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, Mohammed, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind."

 

Bio

dr. KumarProfessor Challa S.S.R. Kumar, Ph.D. is with the Group Leader of Nanofabrication at the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices with the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. Dr. Kumar is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Maximum Life Foundation and one of the recipients of the Nano 50 Technology Award, 2006 for work in Magnetic-Based Nanoparticles for Cancer Imaging & Treatment.

 

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