My own beliefs are that the road to a scientific discovery is seldom direct and that it does not necessarily require great expertise. In fact, I am convinced that often a newcomer to a field has a great advantage because he is ignorant and does not know all the complicated reasons why a particular experiment should not be attempted. Ivar Giaever Read Quote
While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics. Ivar Giaever Read Quote
I don’t really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe science is a finite field. The inventions resulting from this finite field, however, are boundless. Ivar Giaever Read Quote
There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren’t a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics. Ivar Giaever Read Quote
Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory. Ivar Giaever Read Quote
If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills. Ivar Giaever Read Quote
You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel. Ivar Giaever Read Quote
Incontrovertible’ is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science. Ivar Giaever Read Quote
If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do. Ivar Giaever Read Quote
