Swiss Scientist Quotes

Felix Bloch

Alfred Werner

Albert Hofmann

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Alexander Agassiz

Jack Steinberger

Heinrich Rohrer

What one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous-that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.

Chemistry must become the astronomy of the molecular world.

The shape and form of Chymical Vessels is almost infinite...

Christopher Glaser

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

The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.

Jack Steinberger

Erwin with his psi can do Calculations quite a few. But one thing has not been seen Just what psi really mean.

Discovery, even the most apparently insignificant, will end by being of use to man.

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It is because we do not possess "science" that we have "sciences."

Charles-Eugène Guye

Its surface resembled that of a sea which has become suddenly frozen — not during a tempest, but at the instant when the wind has subsided, and the waves, although very high, have become blunted and rounded.

Horace-Bénédict de Saussure

My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.

Alexander Agassiz