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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.

— Heinrich Rohrer

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

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.

I lost all respect for angstroms.

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