Klaus von Klitzing Quotes

CERN is a concrete example of worldwide, international co-operation - and a concrete example of peace. The place which makes, in my opinion, better scientists, but also better people.

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.

Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.

My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

By coordinating with international partners on scientific issues, we strengthen the U.S. scientific enterprise and promote the free exchange of ideas in other nations.

If you look at U.K. science, we collaborate with people across the whole world, and it's extremely important we continue to do so in the future.

The pace and demands in any field, be it genetics, nanotechnology or cosmology, can only be met with increased international cooperation and collaborative projects.

I really believe there are no borders for science.

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world.

Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.

As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.

CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

I will fully engage myself to maintain CERN's excellence in all its attributes, with the help of everybody, including CERN Council, staff and users from all over the world.

I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.

I am happy that I have so many friends all over the world who contributed to my research work, and I believe that also in the future, basic research offers the best opportunity of reaching across borders and overcoming ideological barriers.

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

Science extends an invitation to all nations.

Science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

Collaboration between different parts of the world will bring us closer. From a business point of view, it opens up new markets as well.

As science, of necessity, becomes more involved with itself, so also, of necessity, it becomes more international. I am impressed to know that of the 670 members of this Academy