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" Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come - even if it came in a - living room - or to someone - with a humble living. "
Stefan Hell
Humble
Time
Nothing
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" I got bored with the topic; I felt this was 19th century physics. I was wondering if there was still something profound that could be made with light microscopy. So I saw that the diffraction barrier was the only important problem that had been left over. "
Stefan Hell
Problem
Physics
Over
" I love to be a scientist. I've always enjoyed being curious. "
Stefan Hell
Scientist
Always
Being
" Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few. "
Stefan Hell
Calling
Few
Them
" Eventually I realised there must be a way by playing with the molecules; trying to turn the molecules on and off allows you to see adjacent things you couldn't see before. "
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See
" It's childish, but it still gives me great pleasure to see high-res pictures everyone told me would be impossible. "
Stefan Hell
Pictures
Me
Impossible
" When morning comes, you would better find yourself saying: 'I have so many choices of what to do or what to leave - every morning, every day. I better judge for myself, and - go ahead and do it.' "
Stefan Hell
Morning
Yourself
Day
" I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom. "
Stefan Hell
Wisdom
Always
Common
" According to the belief, molecules closer together than 200 nanometers could not be told apart with focused light. This is because, in a packed molecular crowd, the molecules shout out their fluorescence simultaneously, causing their signal, their voices, to be confused. "
Stefan Hell
Crowd
Together
Belief
" I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it. "
Stefan Hell
Science
Fun
Knowledge
" There is still refinement needed - we are working on being able to do the same things at lower light levels and with a larger field of view. "
Stefan Hell
Things
View
Working