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

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

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"All art is but imitation of nature."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?"

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

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"Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?"

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

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"The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there."

Stephen King, American Author

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"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."

Stephen King, American Author

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"We ran as if to meet the moon."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon..."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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Explore more quotes by Richard Ernst

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

Job

"Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators."

Time

"However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library."

Home

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

Art

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

Management

"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."

Career

"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."

Time

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

Father

"I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents."

Leadership

"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."

Technology