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

We had the freedom to make mistakes. That's something very important. Unfortunately, this freedom for scientists gets more and more lost. … Otherwise, you do the common things. You don't dare to do something beyond what everybody else thinks.

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.

I lost all respect for angstroms.