Ketterle Wolfgang Quotes

#1. Laser cooling opened a new route to ultralow temperature physics. Laser cooling experiments, with room temperature vacuum chambers and easy optical access, look very different from cryogenic cells with multi-layer thermal shielding around them.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#2. Imagine how many aspects of nature we would miss if we lived on the surface of the sun. Without inventing refrigerators, we would only know gaseous matter and never observe liquids or solids, and miss the beauty of snowflakes.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#3. Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks ... but not in my area.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#4. Bose-Einstein condensation is one of the most intriguing phenomena predicted by quantum statistical mechanics.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#5. Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.

Saib Tabrizi

#6. General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures.

Paul Davies

#7. Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.

Victor Ponta

#8. I don't think anything can prepare you for a crew to come in and actually film you as yourself. It's kind of frightening to think that all of a sudden people are going to know how you are, and how you act on a day-to-day basis.

Elisha Cuthbert

#9. Anyone who wonders if a Christian can sin is ignorant about sin's enslaving nature.

Timothy Keller

#10. My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#11. Amplifying atoms is more subtle than amplifying electromagnetic waves because atoms can only change their quantum state and cannot be created. Therefore, even if one could amplify gold atoms, one would not realize the dreams of medieval alchemy.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#12. When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a run, but it does give me time to think through problems. Some solutions are obvious, but they are only obvious when you are relaxed enough to find them.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#13. When I was around thirty, I met my own personal challenge and finished a few marathons under three hours, and I have completed many long bicycle tours.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#14. Auto emission is hazardous and has to be controlled.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#15. I used the Nobel money to buy a house and for the education of my children.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#16. When air is hot, the molecules move fast and they have high kinetic energy. The colder the molecules are, the smaller their velocities are and, subsequently, their energy. Temperature is simply a way to characterize the energy of a system.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#17. Zero kelvin is the lowest possible temperature. At absolute zero, all motion comes to a standstill. It is obvious that a lower temperature is not feasible because there is no velocity smaller than zero and no energy content less than nothing.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#18. Bose and Einstein had triggered low-temperature experiments that have led to the discovery of new matter. I owe my work and my Nobel to them.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#19. Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

Ben Affleck

#20. The ability to see the future does not require sight just Vision and Passion to embrace Change for a better American future.-12-05-2013

Michael E. McKinzy Sr.

#21. Our hearts are like polished mirrors. We need to wipe it clean regularly of the dust that gathers on it.

Norhafsah Hamid

#22. Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

C.D. Wright

#23. Explorations into chemistry were done in our basement, sometimes with friends, and my parents must have had quite a bit of confidence in my abilities when they allowed me to experiment with explosive mixtures.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#24. Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents

Dennis Prager

#25. To go below one nanokelvin is like running a mile below four minutes for the first time.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#26. I think both running and science reflect certain character traits. I have endurance, patience, and ambition. I'm willing to work hard toward a goal, to push myself and overcome limits. Running and science both let me express these traits.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#27. When I was running the marathons in Munich, I always trained by myself. Between the demands of graduate work and a young family, I had to train at unusual hours. A few times, I ran home from my lab late at night, which was 20 kilometers out of town.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#28. Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#29. After earning my Ph.D., I stayed at the Max-Planck Institute as a postdoc, working on laser excitation of Rydberg states of triatomic hydrogen and helium hydride. I also succeeded in analyzing all the emission spectra of helium hydride, which I had discovered during my Ph.D.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#30. Explore this next great frontier where the boundaries between work and higher purpose are merging into one, where doing good really is good for business.

Richard Branson