To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of… - Heinrich Rohrer

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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

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Heinrich Rohrer (born 6 June 1933 - 16 May 2013) is a Swiss physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1986 with Gerd Binnig for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM).

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