Rohrer Quotes

#1. I believe there is something else
entirely going on but no single
person can ever know it,
so we fall in love.

Matthew Rohrer

#2. Fate was playing my hand for me and for once in my life I knew better than not to go ahead and let it.

Elaine Dundy

#3. Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

Rachel Kushner

#4. 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.

Heinrich Rohrer

#5. Even in technology, you have the freedom to solve a problem your way, you see. But it naturally sits in a certain framework whereas, in the physics, everybody had to come up with his own idea what he was going to do.

Heinrich Rohrer

#6. End of the sixties, Keith Blazey interested me to work on GdAlO3, an antiferromagnet on which he had done optic experiments. This started a fruitful cooperation on magnetic phase diagrams, which eventually brought me into the field of critical phenomena.

Heinrich Rohrer

#7. It doesn't look like much work goes on at this university.

Prince Philip

#8. War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language.

A.O. Scott

#9. Kundalini is prana as it passes through a human being.

Frederick Lenz

#10. The new generation of researchers must be given the skills and values - not just scientific ideals, but also awareness of human weaknesses - that will enable it to correct its forebears' mistakes.

Heinrich Rohrer

#11. Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

Heinrich Rohrer

#12. Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love.
Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom.
Between Love and Wisdom
my life continuously flows.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#13. The scientists do not get enough help, enough encouragement, to change their field from time to time because the pressure is too high or is to perform something. And once you start in a new field, you are a nobody to start with, you see.

Heinrich Rohrer

#14. Engineering management philosophy: Save money at all cost.

Jack Rohrer

#15. Recently I've been dreaming
of cursing old people
with little provocation,
because their culture
has a long history of enslaving,
raping, and segregating,
and they have special lights
which prevent us from dancing.

Matthew Rohrer

#16. Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research.

Heinrich Rohrer

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

Heinrich Rohrer

#18. As we seek God, it's best not to focus on asking about the future. It's not about picking and choosing which pieces of information we think God should give us. Rather, we listen for what He wants to tell us, and then gratefully accept whatever that happens to be.

Susan Rohrer

#19. He was a small part of summer,
he was summer's tongue.

Matthew Rohrer

#20. 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

#21. I lost all respect for angstroms.

Heinrich Rohrer

#22. What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

Arsene Wenger

#23. She realized she'd been thinking for years that she would not truly be pleased until she'd checked off this last achievement on her list, but one of the dangers of such thinking is that the event one hopes for never quite lives up to the expectation.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#24. What we may view as bad or dark experiences will often be what makes us who we were always meant to be.

Beem Weeks