A biography for John B. Goodenoughhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“So a good teacher always makes you do something a little bit more than you thought that you could do.”
“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.”
“You have to draw on a fair amount of experience in order to be able to put ideas together.”
“I'm extremely happy to be able to work to build communications throughout the world.”
“I'm extremely happy the lithium-ion batteries helped communications around the world.”
“I enjoy the company and interaction of people at work.”
“I think that everybody needs to find meaning in life. I was hoping to do something that serves the needs of society.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My objective was never to make money. I wanted to contribute to human knowledge and betterment.”
“The first car the family owned was a Model A.”
“I'm honored and humbled to win the Nobel Prize. I thank all my friends for the support and assistance throughout my life.”
“I thought I should study physics because it's fundamental to all science.”
“We need to build relationships, not walls.”
“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.”