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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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Royalty
Treated
Wherever
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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Advance
Better World
Let Us
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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Start-Up
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I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.
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Start-Up
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Entrepreneur
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Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.
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Development
Important
Ingenuity
People
Sustainable Development
Most
Sustainable
Human
Requires
Resource
The Most Important
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I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
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Grandchildren
Ten
Family Wife Children
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Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.
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Anybody Else
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I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.
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Ocean
Shells
People Will Always
Peanut
Waves
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I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
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Controversial
Divide
Unite
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Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.
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Banner
One Word
Ultimate
Nature Truth Science
Reveal
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I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.
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Stereotype
I Am Doing Know
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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Cases
Discoveries
Listened
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I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.
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Laughed
Symmetry
Me People Everyone
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The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.
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Good People
Prestigious
Profession
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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Bible
Grows
Zionist
Blossom
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The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
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Frontiers
Scale
Require
Small Scale
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The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'
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Student
Graduate
Hire
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Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
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Motivated
Succeed
Talented
Exams
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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.
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April
Crystals
Discovered
Electron
Microscope
Opened
Phase
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The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
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Zero
Good News
Population
Population Growth
Rate
Thanks
Education Good Women
Growth Rate
Systematically
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Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.
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Cases
Nations
Advances
Tendency
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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Discover
Lesson
Scientists
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In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.
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Science Religion Believe
Beliefs
Forefront
Harbor
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When my grandchildren are older and my great-grandchildren start growing up, first of all, I want them to be in Israel. I don't want them to leave the country because they have no choice.
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Grandchildren
First Of All
No Choice
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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.
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Promise
Select
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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.
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Apart
Binds
Drives
Identified
Map
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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.
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Courses
Encouraged
Introduce
Universities
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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.
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Innovation
Raises
Reluctant
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I think I can change things for the better in this country. I'm doing it now as well, in many areas, mostly in education, higher education and technological entrepreneurship. But I think I could do a lot more from a presidential position.
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Higher Education
Presidential
Change Things
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I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.
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Famous
Basics
Lectures
Nobel
Opposition
Ridicule
Chemical
Idol
Laureate
Scientists
Subject
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Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.
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Department
Electrical
Engineering
Materials
Medicine
Bar
Colleges
Good Way Will
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My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.
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Dream
Best
Book
Childhood
Engineering
Mysterious
Physics
Study
Wanted
Whole
Person
Nothing
After
Boy
Childhood Dream
Could
Creates
Read
Engineer
Times
Island
Mechanical
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Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.
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Accurate
Discovery
Filled
Results
Discovered
Electron
Gap
Limited
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I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.
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Academia
Capable
Crisis
Good Job
Models
Role Models
Time Education Good
Fairly
Teachers
Education Time Good
Classes
Secondary
Too Much Time
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