Philip Emeagwali Quotations

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions.

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.