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"First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice."

"After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna."

"It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems."

"What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible."

"If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling."
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"This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding."

"Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground."

"A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure."

"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."

"Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse."

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought."

"Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought."

"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought."
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