Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.

Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.

If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.

The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.