"It is an incredible privilege to be a scientist. Good scientists love every bit of what they are doing and are self-driven by curiosity. There might be other jobs that pay much better, but they can hardly be so much fun. Traditionally societies honored and supported our commitment without asking for immediate returns, a bargain that benefited both sides. I hope we can stem the fashionable temptation to manage science like it is a business. Creativity cannot be measured in impact factors and the unknown has no milestones. If we can maintain a system based on mutual trust, scientists will continue to have big dreams and the means to pursue them."

Dietrich Leibfried
START-Preisträger 2000

Projekttitel:
"Neue Techniken für die Quanteninformations-verarbeitung mit gespeicherten Ionen."