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

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

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

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like ared flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front ofsomeone who was annoyed by it.

Football is unconditional love.

I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.

The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.

I learned a lot, investigative methodology - wise, from litigators - watching their process.

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

Jealous, O’Shea?" "Actually… I am.

Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.