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To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition. ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical value. Examples of how absurd the idea of scientific competition is are abundant.

To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition. ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical value. Examples of how absurd the idea of scientific competition is are abundant.

Heinrich Rohrer
Ideas, Competition, Progress
"Science - A Part of Our Future". Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Vol. 19, 193, 1994.

We live of novelty in science, so whenever you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that this cannot be done, that it is not interesting and so on.

Heinrich Rohrer
Interesting, Overcoming, Done
Interview with Adam Smith, www.nobelprize.org. April 9, 2008.

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

Heinrich Rohrer
Age
"Nishina memorial lectures: creators of modern physics" by Nishina Memorial Foundation, Springer, (p. 506), 2008.

I lost all respect for angstroms.

Heinrich Rohrer
Lost
"Nobel Lectures, Physics 1981-1990", Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Gösta Ekspång, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, www.nobelprize.org. 1993.

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