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 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.

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 listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

Fill your heart with as much love as you can, and don't hold it in.

People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.

The name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back.

Was it my fault that I got out of hand? --Loki

I've got a really sweet tooth and sometimes I just have to have some chocolate.

Gray and overcast from my earthly perspective, but it's sunny above these storm clouds. Grace lets us see life from God's point of view.

I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

Love is powerful. It can bring the gods to their knees.

I known I'm only a child, yet I know we're all in the this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal