Erwin Neher Quotes

Germany, Scientist
March 20, 1944

Erwin Neher is a German biophysicist, specializing in the field of cell physiology. For significant contribution in the field, in 1991 he was awarded, along with Bert Sakmann, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells".

Do you trust in your fellow citizens, in a sense that whatever they will have in additional tools they will use in balance more to the good or more to the bad? If you think they will use it more to the bad, you shouldn't do science, you know.

Erwin Neher
- Science
- Trust
- Balance
You do what you like because you just follow your curiosity, and you are happy when you find new things about nature, about how things work around us and inside us.

Erwin Neher
- Happy
- Nature
- Curiosity

Of course I have other interests, but on the other hand, science is a lifestyle in the sense that it's a combination of profession and hobby.

Erwin Neher