Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by John B. Goodenough

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist John B. Goodenough.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
John B. Goodenough

John Bannister Goodenough is an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. He is a professor of Mechanical, Materials Science, and Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is widely credited with the identification and development of the lithium-ion battery, for developing the Goodenough–Kanamori rules in determining the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials, and for seminal developments in computer random-access memory.

The first car the family owned was a Model A.
My objective was never to make money. I wanted to contribute to human knowledge and betterment.
I enjoy the company and interaction of people at work. — © John B. Goodenough
I enjoy the company and interaction of people at work.
Some of us are turtles; we crawl and struggle along, and we haven't maybe figured it out by the time we're 30. But the turtles have to keep on walking.
You have to draw on a fair amount of experience in order to be able to put ideas together.
I think that everybody needs to find meaning in life. I was hoping to do something that serves the needs of society.
We need to build relationships, not walls.
I'm extremely happy to be able to work to build communications throughout the world.
I'm honored and humbled to win the Nobel Prize. I thank all my friends for the support and assistance throughout my life.
I've had an interesting career, and I don't know if it was by chance or grace.
Live to 97 and you can do anything.
There are a lot of people doing good work, but we need to get the burning of fossil fuels off the highways and speedways of the world, so that we'll step up on global warming.
Well as I say, don't believe everything that you read and don't be afraid to think and it is alright to understand what has gone before but don't just rely on copying but develop your internal voice and your own internal means of interpreting.
I'm extremely happy the lithium-ion batteries helped communications around the world.
So a good teacher always makes you do something a little bit more than you thought that you could do.
I'm old enough to know you can't close your mind to new ideas. You have to test out every possibility if you want something new.
Cost, safety, energy density, rates of charge and discharge and cycle life are critical for battery-driven cars to be more widely adopted.
Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may discover their own wisdom. — © John B. Goodenough
Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may discover their own wisdom.
I thought I should study physics because it's fundamental to all science.
I go to the lab and in order to interact with my postdoctoral students and try to see if I can shape them to not copy but to ask questions and to think. We have to have a little dialogue because you don't pretend to be the fountain of all wisdom.
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