Heinrich Rohrer Quotes

• 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 Rohrer

  Ideas, Competition, Progress

  "Science - A Part of Our Future". Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Vol. 19, 193, 1994.

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• The coming nanometer age can, therefore, also be called the age of interdisciplinarity.

  Heinrich Rohrer

  Age

  "Nishina memorial lectures: creators of modern physics" by Nishina Memorial Foundation, Springer, (p. 506), 2008.

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• I lost all respect for angstroms.

  Heinrich Rohrer

  Lost

  "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 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 Rohrer

  Interesting, Overcoming, Done

  Interview with Adam Smith, www.nobelprize.org. April 9, 2008.

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