Joachim Frank

“Medicine is no longer looking at organs. It looks at the processes inside the cell.”

“I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a way, by comparison.”

“There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.”

“I thought the chances of becoming a Nobel Prize laureate were minuscule because there are so many other innovations and discoveries that happen almost every day.”

“I think I have a heavily compartmentalized brain, which means that certain routines are simply running without me realizing it.”

“I do think that deciding between a particular discovery and a technological breakthrough - I would always think the impact is probably much larger for the technological breakthrough.”