Richard Ernst Quotes

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• However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home…
• Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
• I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.
• I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of…
• In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am…
• My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.
• On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.
• I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.
• A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.
• I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.
• I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly…
• Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962…
• Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer.

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