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 try to repeat my present career.

A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

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.

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 presently the president.

On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.

Distance yourself from people who:1. Disrespect you2. Mistreat others3. Are abusive4. Lie to you5. Are negative6. Have no goals7. Use you8. Put you down

We need rules when we are young but once they are instilled we can have sensible leeway

All the characters in this book are fictional, but they are as real to me as the members of my own family. I had to tell their story because they could not.

Sometimes we realize that we are like facebook, people using us for themselves, meeting each other via us, all credit going to the owner, even no one talking about us, just using US .

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

As a matter of fact, Latin America's economy is almost as big as the economy of China. We're all focused on China. Latin America is a huge opportunity for America - time zone, language opportunities.

We're always going to be cherry-picking to make religion make sense. Especially in the modern context.

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.