“Probably in most education systems in a sense we are stuck with the disciplines as we created them last, last century and before that.”

— Horst Ludwig Störmer

Small Wonders – The World of Nanoscience. Honeywell-Nobel Laureate Lecture Series at Czech Technical University, Prague (October 19, 2006), http://www.honeywellscience.com/nobel-laureates/physics/horst-stormer

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