"Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation."

"Young people should be given good support and freedom in their research. They are the greatest source of scientific c…"

"We should willingly take risks in supporting new projects. The tendency is to play it safe when funding is low, but w…"

"Excessive bureaucracy is distracting, time-consuming, and destructive to creativity."

"It is clear to me that under the right conditions, future technologies will be created that we cannot even imagine."

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"

"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"

"The hunter catches a dreadful prey, the seaman steers his ship into an unspeakable harbor, the plowman sows and reaps…"

"You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim that privilege …"