To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition. ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical value. Exa…

- Heinrich Rohrer

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

- Heinrich Rohrer

I lost all respect for angstroms.

- Heinrich Rohrer

We live of novelty in science, so whenever you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that this cannot be done, that it is not intere…

- Heinrich Rohrer