Rolf-dieter Heuer Quotes

#1. I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that.

Ruth Rendell

#2. Good people climb quickly - just like in a company.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#3. At some point, the time will have passed when individuals are capable of major discoveries.

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#4. Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.

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#5. People are saying I don't need science, I have everything, but everything is based on science.

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#6. Chatter about art is almost always useless.

Paul Cezanne

#7. We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. If there is no fundamental science then there is no basis for applied science. We have to strike a balance. 23 years ago the World Wide Web was born here. It has changed the world dramatically.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#9. wondered if he was going to turn up. When he did, I was gutted.

Collette Elliott

#10. The ability to work together has to be in the blood of particle physicists. They learn very early on that it is impossible to advance on one's own and that constant exchange is necessary.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#11. We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.

Gary Paul Nabhan

#12. The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#13. If you want me to rule out ever being Manchester United manager, I can't. Special clubs need special managers, so in theory it could work.

Jose Mourinho

#14. Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where.

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#15. You can't be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan.

Simon Cheshire

#16. If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#18. The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#19. Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

Phylicia Rashad