37 Quotes by Dan Shechtman

The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

A president should look for what binds the people together rather than what drives them apart. As soon as you are identified with one side of the political map, you are no longer everybody's president.

As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.

Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.

I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.

On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.