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Philip Emeagwali

"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."

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"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."

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"The height of your storm determines the height of your rainbow."

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"It is in vain to try and kick the wind."

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"Impossible things are really rough to do, you know."

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"If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it."

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"I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, "This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles."

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"You cannot reach space without overcoming the attraction of gravity."

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"Every problem is a new puzzle to be solved."

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"The more difficult a problem is, the more discoveries you make in the process of resolving it."

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"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."

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"When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city."

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"During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life."
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"When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments."
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"Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources."
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"The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future."
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"The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong."
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"The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works."
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"Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected."
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"It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels."
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"The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine."
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"I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me."
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