Chu Harvard speech: Life is too short, not too empty-handedChu Harvard speech: Life is too short not empty-handed through June 4, Michael Kors Classic Monogram Large Red Totes 2009, US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu was invited to deliver Michael Kors Colgate Grommet Large Black Wallets a speech at the graduation ceremony at Harvard University. Chu is the 1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics. June 4, Chu obtained an honorary doctorate from Harvard University. In his speech, he expressed words with humor, Michael Kors Circle Logo Large Coffee Wallets his own fame loud enough, nor billionaires, but at least he is a \u0026 ldquo; nerd \u0026 rdquo; (anerd). Selected in this lecture content to readers. Dear President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers of you, fellow teachers, parents, friends, and, most importantly, today 's graduates, thank you for letting me the opportunity to share with you this wonderful day. I'm not sure I qualify Harvard Commencement speakers award. Last year, graced this podium, the British billionaire novelist Ms. JK Rowling, who started as a classics student. Two years ago I stood here Bill \u0026 middot; Mr. Gates, he is a super billionaire philanthropist and computer genius. Unfortunately this year, your speech is me, although I am not wealthy, but at least I was a nerd. I am very grateful to Harvard University gave me an honorary degree, which is important to me, and perhaps more important than you would think. You know, technically, I was our family heterogeneous. My brother in Michael Kors Colgate Grommet Large Pink Wallets Massachusetts Institute of Technology to get M.D., Ph.D. at Harvard University to give; my brother has a law degree from Harvard University. When I was awarded a Nobel Prize, I thought my mother would be pleased. But I was wrong. The announcement of the morning, I called her, she replied: \u0026 ldquo; This is good news, but I would like to know when the next time you see me? \u0026 Rdquo; now our brothers, when I eventually got a degree from Harvard, I Michael Kors Classic Duffle Small Black Crossbody Bags think this time, she will be satisfied. Published in the Harvard University commencement address, there is a difficulty that some of you may have different views, I do not like to repeat previous speeches has said. I ask that you forgive me for two reasons. First, in order to have impact, it is important is to deliver the same message. In science, the first discoverer is important, but recognized before, the last person to make that discovery may be more important. Second, authors who borrow from others are following in the footsteps of the best. Harvard University graduate, poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote: \u0026 ldquo; All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. \u0026 Rdquo; Picasso declared \u0026 ldquo; Good artists borrow, great artists steal. \u0026 Rdquo; Why should commencement speakers be held to the same standard? I would also like to point out a speech to graduates, for me it is ironic, because if I had I ventured to Harvard University to submit application for admission will be rejected. My wife Jean, director of admissions at Stanford University, she assured me, if I'd apply for Stanford University, she would have rejected me. The draft of this speech I gave her a look, she objected strongly to my use \u0026 ldquo; reject \u0026 rdquo; the word, she never rejected applicants. In the rejection letter, she always writes: \u0026 ldquo; we are unable to offer you admission. \u0026 Rdquo; I can not tell any difference between the two in the end. However, admissions director of the big popular schools are in reality, called \u0026 ldquo; denial of director \u0026 rdquo ;. Obviously, I need to take to learn how to market themselves. Commencement address will follow the classical sonata form, my speech is no exception. First movement, just \u0026 mdash; \u0026 mdash; lively chat. This next movement consists of unsolicited advice. Such advice is rarely valued, seldom Michael Kors Classic Monogram Dotted Large Pink Totes remembered, never followed. But, as Oscar Wilde said: \u0026 ldquo; For advice, you can do is give it to someone else, because it you do not have anything useful. \u0026 Rdquo; So, here is my advice. First, the achievements, do not forget predecessors. Thank your parents and friends who supported you, want to thank your professors who were inspirational, and especially thank the other professors whose brilliant lectures forced you to teach yourself. On the whole, self-learning ability is excellent liberal arts education and will be the key to your success. You have to embrace your classmates, thank you carried with them a number of times all night long talk, which brought immeasurable value to your education. Of course, you also want to thank Harvard University. But even if you forget this, an alumni association to remind you. Second, in your future life, cultivate a generous spirit. In any negotiation, the last, little advantage. Do not put on the table the money away. In cooperation, not to honor themselves. In a successful collaboration, everybody gets 90 percent of the credit. Movie 'Harvey' in, Jimmy Stewart role Elwood P. Dowd, completely understand this. He said: \u0026 ldquo; years ago, my mother once said to me, \u0026 lsquo; Elwood, live in this world, you either make a wise man, or to be a good person. \u0026 Rsquo; \u0026 rdquo; I do smart people, have done for years. \u0026 Hellip; \u0026 hellip; Michael Kors Colgate Logo Signature Large Apricot Wallets however, I recommend you to do good. You can quote me on that. My third piece of advice is that when you start a new stage of life, please follow your passion. If you do not have love, I find one do not give up. Life is too short to go through it without, you have to caring deeply about something. When I was your age, I was incredibly single-minded in my goal to be a physicist. (Motivational speakers www.lz13.cn) After college, I was to be at the University of California at Berkeley for eight years as a graduate student and postdoc, then went nine years at Bell Labs. During these years, the center and all the fun occupation on my concern comes from physics. I have one last piece of advice interests is important, but you should not only consider the interests. When you're white-haired, grown old, and look back on life, you need to feel proud of what you have done. Material life and you realize possessive, will not produce pride. Only those under your influence, are you people and things changed, will make you proud. In the Bell Labs spent nine years later, I decided to leave that warm, cozy ivory tower for my eyes \u0026 ldquo; real world \u0026 rdquo; \u0026 mdash; \u0026 mdash; University. I think of Bell Labs, to quote the words of Mary Poppins, \u0026 ldquo; in fact perfect \u0026 rdquo ;. However, I wanted to leave behind something more than scientific articles. I wanted to teach, nurture my own offspring in science. I was at Stanford, a friend and distinguished colleague Ted Geballe. He is also from Berkeley to Bell Labs, a few years ago and left Bell Labs to Stanford. He was our motives best description: \u0026 ldquo; work at the University, the biggest advantage is the students. They come in fresh, enthusiastic, open to ideas, unscarred by the battles of life. Although they do not realize it, but they are the best audience in this society you can find. If life is only a mind is free to be creative, then that time is that you are in college. When into the school, students of believing textbooks have no doubt that eventually they figure out that textbooks and professors do not know everything, and then they start to think independently. Since then, I begin learning from them. \u0026 Rdquo; I taught the students, with over postdoc, worked with younger colleagues, are very good. They have more than 30 people, it is now a professor. Research institutions where they have many of the world's first-rate, including Harvard University. I learned a lot from them. Even now, I occasionally on weekends, now also engaged in biophysics student advice. I cherish the idea of return to the community, began a teaching career. My life, to give more than I paid, so I want to return to the community. This leads to the final movement of this speech. First of all I want to say a great scientific discovery and a new dilemma that it poses. It is a call to arms, to make a change in the time. Over the past several decades, our climate has been changing. Climate change is not only in the past 600,000 years occurred six ice ages. However, recent measurements show that the climate change has accelerated. Arctic ice cap size in September, only about half 50 years ago. 1870 onwards, people began to measure the speed of sea level rise, and now the rate is five times that time. A major scientific discovery thus produced. Science first time in human history, predictions of how our actions will affect the world 50 and 100 years later. Reasons for these changes is that from the beginning of the industrial revolution, human emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere increases. This makes the Earth's average temperature rose by 0.8 degrees Celsius. Even if we stop all greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures still rose about 1 degree than in the past. Because before the temperature reached equilibrium, rising sea temperatures will continue for decades. If the world continues on a business model change, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts that this century will have a 50% chance the temperature will rise by at least 5 degrees. This may sound like much, but let me remind you that during the last ice age, the earth's temperature has only just 6 degrees. At that time, most of the United States and Canada to Ohio and Pennsylvania were covered year round is covered by glaciers. Earth's temperature rose 5 degrees, will be a very different planet. Since the change will be so rapid that many species, including humans, have a hard time adapting. For example, I was told, in a much warmer world, insects were bigger. I do not know now beside this big buzzing flies, is a precursor. We also face the specter of nonlinear \u0026 ldquo; \u0026 rdquo ;, a tipping point that would cause much more severe changes. \u0026 Ldquo; tipping point \u0026 rdquo; an example is the melting of permafrost. The permafrost accumulating for thousands of years, which includes a huge amount of frozen organic matter. If the soil melts, microbes will make permafrost organics to rot. Biological and after freezing and above freezing, they differ in biological characteristics, we are all familiar. In the freezer, frozen food after a long saved, you can still eat. However, once thawed, it spoils quickly. Rotting permafrost will release much methane and carbon dioxide? Even if only a portion of the carbon is released, it could be even more than we do from the beginning of the industrial revolution of all greenhouse gases released. Once this kind of thing happen, the situation got out of hand. Climate problem is a consequence of our economic development brought in accidentally. We depend on fossil energy sources, winter heating, summer cooling, night lighting, long-distance travel, global tourism. Energy is the foundation of Michael Kors Chelsea Matching Medium Silver Totes economic prosperity, we can not give up economic prosperity. The United States accounted for 3 percent of the world population, but we consume 25 percent of energy worldwide. Contrast, there are 1.6 billion people without electricity, hundreds of millions of people with twigs and animal dung to cook with this form. People in developing countries do not enjoy our lives, but they all look in the eyes, and they want what we have. This is a new challenge. The world as a whole, we are in the end how many are willing to pay to mitigate climate change? This change in 100 years ago, no one thought of. Intergenerational responsibility is deeply rooted in all cultures. Parents work hard so that their children have a better life. Climate change will affect the entire world, but our nature so we only care about the welfare of individual households. We can not put the world as a whole? We can not take responsibility for the future generations? Although I worried, but still optimistic about the future, this problem will be resolved. I became Lawrence \u0026 middot; Berkeley National Laboratory, in part because I wanted to enlist some of the best scientists to study climate change countermeasures. I was there only four and a half years, is the lab 78-year history, the shortest serving director, but when I left, at the Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, a number of very exciting energy institutes have been set up a. To become one of the Obama administration, I am extremely honored. If there is a time to help steer America and the world on a sustainable energy path, then now is the time. President has to send a message, not one of doom and gloom, but of optimism, we still have a chance. I share this optimism. Michael Kors Accessories The task ahead is daunting, but we can and will succeed. We already have some of the answers can be immediate savings in energy and improve energy efficiency. They are not hanging in the branches of the fruit, but ripe fall to the ground, and to see if we would be willing to pick it up. For example, we have the potential to make buildings 80 percent more efficient with investments in 15 years you can recover. Consumption of Michael Kors Classic Monogram Dotted Large Blue Totes buildings accounts for 40% of our energy consumption, energy efficient buildings will cut our carbon emissions by one-third. We are accelerating this huge American innovation machine that will be the basis of a new Michael Kors Classic Monogram Large Ivory Totes American prosperity. We will invest heavily in the effective use of Michael Kors Colgate Grommet Large Pink Wallets the new method of solar, wind, nuclear power, and capture and isolation methods in power plant emissions of carbon dioxide. Advanced biofuels and electric vehicles will make us less dependent on foreign oil. In the coming decades, we will almost certainly face higher oil prices and more stringent carbon dioxide emissions policies. This is a new industrial revolution, the United States has the opportunity to act as a leader. The great hockey player Wayne Gretzky was asked how he moves on the ice, he replied: \u0026 ldquo; I slid the puck Michael Kors Outlet is going, not where it is now in the position. \u0026 Rdquo; the United States should do the same. The Obama administration is for a prosperous and sustainable energy, lay a new foundation. But we have a lot I do not know the place. This requires your participation. In this speech, I am asking you, the Harvard graduates, to join us. You Michael Kors Colgate Logo Signature Large Pink Wallets are our future intellectual leaders, take the time to learn about what's at stake, and then act accordingly. As future scientists and engineers, I ask you to give us better technology solutions. As future economists and political scientists, I ask you to create better policy options. As future business leaders, I ask that you make sustainability an integral part of your business. Finally, as humanists, I ask that you speak to our common humanity. One of the cruelest ironies about climate change, that is, who will be hurt the most, Michael Kors Hobo is precisely the most innocent people \u0026 mdash; \u0026 mdash; those people and those yet to be born in the world's poorest. The coda to this last movement is borrowed from two humanists. The first quote is from Martin \u0026 middot; Luther \u0026 middot; gold. This is the 1967 end of the war in Vietnam, he comments, but seems so fitting for today 's climate crisis. \u0026 Ldquo; I call on people around the world to unite as one, abandoned race, color, class, and nation is in reality; I appeal to all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind. You will therefore suffer misunderstanding and misreading, believe in the philosophy of Nietzsche world as a weak and cowardly. However, this is absolutely essential humanity to exist. \u0026 Hellip; \u0026 hellip; my friend, the sheer fact that tomorrow is today. At the moment, we are facing the most urgent cases. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. \u0026 Rdquo; the second paragraph quotation from William \u0026 middot; Faulkner. December 1950 October, he was in winning the Nobel Prize banquet speech, talked about the world in the shadow of nuclear war, humanitarians should play what role. \u0026 Ldquo; I believe that man will not merely endure, he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has a voice, but because he has a soul, a compassion and sacrifice and endurance of the spirit. Poet, writer's, duty is to write about these things. They have the power to sublimate the human heart, by reminding him past glory of stuff \u0026 mdash; \u0026 mdash; courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice. \u0026 Rdquo; you students, you play a vital role in our future. As you pursue your private passions, I hope you will also develop a passion and a voice to all aspects of large and small, to help improve the world. This will give you the greatest satisfaction. Finally, please accept my warmest congratulations. May you prosper, may you help preserve and save our planet for your children, and all future children. (Finish)