Heinrich Rohrer famous quotes

The coming nanometer age can, therefore, also be called the age of interdisciplinarity.
-- Heinrich Rohrer

#Age

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

I lost all respect for angstroms.
-- Heinrich Rohrer

#Lost

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.
-- Heinrich Rohrer

#Interesting #Novelty #Overcoming

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

God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.