The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.

I couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

I look upon ourselves as partners in all of this, and that each of us contributes and does what he can do best. And so I see not a top rung and a bottom rung - I see all this horizontally - and I see this as part of a matrix. And I see every human being as having a purpose, a destiny, if you like - the destiny that exists in each of us - and find ways and means to provide such opportunities for everyone.

Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.