Scientist Quotes

When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.

I'm bisexual.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.

Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.

People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer.

On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library.

A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.