Stefan Hell Quotes

Molecules A and B meet, marry, and beget the species. This takes place in one-millionth of a billionth of a second. This is a fundamental process in nature, and the world was looking for a way to be able to see the process. But many brilliant people said it couldn't be done.

Once we understand how molecules are formed, we can manipulate them. If you can manipulate molecules, you can manipulate genes and matter, you can synthesize new material - the implications are just unbelievable.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University. Unlike a working scientist, being president for seven years provided an opportunity to interact with scientists in many different fields and broadened my scope of the natural sciences.

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.

The decline in funding for the physical sciences has put our Nation's capabilities for scientific innovation at risk.

We are a society now that is 100 percent dependent on science.

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him …

The government needs good science, and I’m not willing to abdicate the role of advising the Administration and Congress on [science] policy.

When I grew up, scientists were anti-social people who worked in basements and wore coats and worked with bunson burners, and now they're in our technology every day, and our technology has almost become fashion accessories.

The United States needs to be a leader in scientific research.

With the right policies and regulations, the opportunities for American medical advancement and scientific innovation are boundless.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.

A true scientist doesn't perform prescribed experiments; she develops her own and thus generates wholly new knowledge.

Everyone who's rational should have an interest in science. The future of our planet depends on our understanding of science... It's something I value immensely.

Research in any domain of science today requires specialized training to build up knowledge and clinical competence. To make major breakthroughs, we need people with expertise who are engaged in sustained research over a long period of time - in a word, scientists.

Gérard Mourou, who was my PhD supervisor, dreamed up the idea of increasing laser intensity by orders of magnitude. He did it while he was on a ski trip with his family. He probably shouldn't have been thinking about lasers.

It is absolutely key that funding is used to support the best scientists with the best ideas.

Oh, I assure you, science is anything but boring.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match what is already known. Scientific creativity is imagination in a straitjacket.

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.