He who reaches all his goals has probably not chosen them high enough.
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.
A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.
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.
I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.
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.
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.
Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.
Together we can make a difference and empower communities to be self sufficient.
There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience.
Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.