Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.
I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.
My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.
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 see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.
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.
Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.
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.
Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.
A president should look for what binds the people together rather than what drives them apart. As soon as you are identified with one side of the political map, you are no longer everybody's president.
Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.
A humble scientist is a good scientist.
I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.
Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.
I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.
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.
Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
