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Heinrich Rohrer Quotes

In all the years with IBM Research, I have especially appreciated the freedom to pursue the activities I found interesting and greatly enjoyed the stimulus, collegial cooperation, frankness, and intellectual generosity of two scientific communities, namely in superconductivity and critical phenomena.

Heinrich Rohrer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: swiss
Birth: June 6, 1933 - May 16, 2013

Topics

Freedom Generosity Research Pursue

We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of ours to stay stuck in mediocrity. Oh, the years we waste adapting to lousy marriages, soul-sucking jobs, being friends with people who are rude to waitresses.

People Mediocrity Friends Problem

I really want to be like my mom in some ways, because I already take a lot after her already. I really like the way she treats us and disciplines us, and I think that she's just great because of how she's balanced us and all of that.

Great Mom Think Want Way She

Most of my supporters are people who actually know me. I just continue to do the best I can and I don't bother to try and respond to every little bit because the best response is just to keep on doing what you think is right.

Best People Me Think Doing You

Anytime you get nine people together, whether it's at a party or it's in the conference room of the Supreme Court, you do have to maintain some order, or it does kind of degenerate into squabbling pretty quickly.

Together People You Party Kind Room

To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so lives more powerfully in the imagination.

Imagination City Me Process Reality

As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's something different going on underneath.

Think Wave You Know Places See

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Focus Moving On Moving Forward Moving

'2001: A Space Odyssey' is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also 'Blade Runner.' And 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is also one of my favorites. I'm always looking for sci-fi material, and it's difficult to find original and strong material that's not just about weaponry.

Denis Villeneuve

Space Me Looking Strong Find Kind

My biggest problem is overconfidence.

Problem Biggest Biggest Problem

I was a little punk rocker and was pregnant with Sarah when I went to university. I had her in the Christmas holidays of the first term. It was 1979, and UCL was very proud of its reputation as a liberal university, so they were very helpful.

Proud Reputation Holidays Christmas

Everybody's looking for the niche to make the difference. Some people think they see the mother lode in the beautiful people, especially the vote of the beautiful women.

Mother Women Beautiful People Think

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ocean Lake Drops Pond Lakes Bucket

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