Herbert Kroemer Quote

Ultimately, progress in applications is not deterministic, but opportunistic, exploiting for new applications whatever new science and technology happen to be coming along.

in his Nobel Lecture, Quasi-Electric Fields and Band Offsets: Teaching Electrons New Tricks, 8 December 2000, at Aula Magna, Stockholm University.

Herbert Kroemer - Nobel Lecture: Quasi-Electric Fields and Band Offsets: Teaching Electrons New Tricks