"Internet challenges many old rules of how to disseminate knowledge and do business with culture"

"It is still a very young science but especially active and very robust"

"In biology, one can never make predictions"

"As a teacher, 80% of what I write is done with chalk and on a blackboard"

"Mysticism educates the human being in the experience of distance"

"Science and art are part of a whole"

"The expression 'sustainable growth' is an oxymoron"

"One cannot aspire to be happy without money"

"Scientific research is the engine of progress and of life quality"

"Today one has to enforce to think globally and to also act globally"

"We all have microbial ancestors"

"I worry about how we invest in science"

"The gigas of memory will soon become an obsolete concept"

"The dumbest cell is cleverer than the cleverest of scientists"