James Tour: How Did Life Come into Being?
Socrates in the City
Socrates in the City
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🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
A conversation between Dr. James Tour and Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas on the topic “How Did Life Come into Being?” This event took place at the River Oaks Country Club in Houston, Texas in October 2022. Learn more about Socrates in the City at socratesinthecity.com.
Dr. Tour is presently the T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Computer Science, and Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice University. He is widely regarded as among the leading nano-scientists in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, my goodness. |
| 0:15.0 | There's so many of you. |
| 0:18.1 | So thank you. |
| 0:19.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:19.8 | There's so very, very many of you and so few of me. |
| 0:25.1 | I'm overwhelmed. |
| 0:26.6 | I can't tell you how thrilled I am to do Socrates in the city in Houston. |
| 0:32.4 | We have done it in other, you know, backwater. |
| 0:42.4 | Uh, in other, you know, backwater. There's no way, once you use the adjective backwater, there's no way to redeem it. |
| 0:46.6 | No, we've done these events not just around the country here and there, but also in the south of France, |
| 0:56.0 | in Oxford, England. |
| 0:57.2 | If you go to the website, |
| 0:58.2 | Soxas and the city, you'll see those. |
| 1:00.4 | But we love doing them in places other than New York. |
| 1:05.6 | Usually fewer stabbing incidents. |
| 1:10.1 | Not that I'm not here to judge, okay? |
| 1:12.8 | I'm just saying. |
| 1:14.2 | But we really have never done one here. |
| 1:16.8 | And I've been in Houston many times, and I know I've met many of you in my various |
| 1:20.9 | visits to Houston, but it just thrills me that we're doing this here. |
| 1:26.9 | I apologize for the club. It's the best we could do. |
| 1:30.5 | Is Dick here? No, we are so thrilled that we could do it here. Now, if you're unfamiliar |
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