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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How easy it would be just to let go, to go willingly into all that wonderful energy.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.

Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.

You are solely responsible for doing the work required to become better.

The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile.

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh