Heinrich Rohrer quotes
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“The coming nanometer age can, therefore, also be called the age of interdisciplinarity.”
-- Heinrich RohrerSource : "Nishina memorial lectures: creators of modern physics" by Nishina Memorial Foundation, Springer, (p. 506), 2008.
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“To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition. ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical value. Examples of how absurd the idea of scientific competition is are abundant.”
-- Heinrich RohrerSource : "Science - A Part of Our Future". Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Vol. 19, 193, 1994.
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“I lost all respect for angstroms.”
-- Heinrich RohrerSource : "Nobel Lectures, Physics 1981-1990", Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Gösta Ekspång, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, www.nobelprize.org. 1993.
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“We live of novelty in science. So when you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that it cannot be done, that it's not interesting and so on.”
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“We live of novelty in science, so whenever you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that this cannot be done, that it is not interesting and so on.”
-- Heinrich RohrerSource : Interview with Adam Smith, www.nobelprize.org. April 9, 2008.
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“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
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“The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”
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“I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.”
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“What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?”
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