Zitat des Tages von Dan Shechtman:
Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.
I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.
The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.
In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.
I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.
The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.
I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.
As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.
I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.
When my grandchildren are older and my great-grandchildren start growing up, first of all, I want them to be in Israel. I don't want them to leave the country because they have no choice.
The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.
In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.
I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.
I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.