Nobel Laureates From Switzerland

"[...] knowledge is our greatest wealth and the love of others the most beautiful human value."

"Reasonably, all these [fossil fuel] investments are financial dead-ends or ecological disasters."

"To control global warming, only one solution: stop burning fossil fuels."

"Today, our developed nations live in opulence, excess and waste, with the consequences that our environment is degrading and the climate is wreaked."

"We had the freedom to make mistakes. That's something very important. Unfortunately, this freedom for scientists gets more and more lost. … Otherwise, you do the common things. You don't dare to do something beyond what everybody else thinks."

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

"Young people are not yet biased in their mind. They are not completely taken by their expert opinions. Expert opinions have a difficulty to go beyond of what they know. When you start in a new field, from the point of view of a scientist, you certainly are 20 years younger, because in the new field you're not yet biased and you look at certain things a little bit more relaxed and a little bit more open."

"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."

"I lost all respect for angstroms."

"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."