Heinrich Rohrer quotes

Heinrich Rohrer was a Swiss physicist renowned for co-inventing the scanning tunneling microscope. This groundbreaking invention opened new frontiers in nanotechnology and surface science. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this contribution. Here are 6 of his quotes:

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.

Heinrich Rohrer

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

Heinrich Rohrer

I lost all respect for angstroms.

Heinrich Rohrer

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.

Heinrich Rohrer

We had the freedom to make mistakes. That's something very important.

Heinrich Rohrer