Question 10: Your recommendation for future students of physics?

Gesine Grosche, PTB Working Group "Unit of Length": Don’t let rigid structures get you down. Physics should be fun.

Ernst O. Göbel, President of the PTB:
To do what you can’t help doing. It’s worth the trouble.

Annette Paul, PTB Workin Group "Environmental Radioactivity": Do what you like, so you will be really good.

Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962): “Experiments whose results agree with theory are not interesting. Of importance are, however, results which do not agree with theory, as they can teach us something new.”

Uwe Keyser, former PTB Department "Focal Points of Experimental Research": Be open for the many unsolved questions - notwithstanding any statements made in university lectures claiming the contrary.

Andreas Bauch, PTB Working Group "Unit of time": Do not specialize too early, take many subsidiary subjects even if you cannot see the benefit in the short run.

Marie Curie (1867 - 1934): “I use to read several things at the same time, as continuous occupation with one and the same thing might overfatigue my brain which is already strongly overstrained. If I feel completely unable to read with advantage, I solve algebraic or trigonometric tasks, as they force me to pay attention and that gets me back on the right lines.”

Albert Einstein (1897 - 1955): 10. Your recommendation for future students of physics? “Among the things which characterize a valuable education [...] also ranks the development of an independent and critical mind, a development which in many cases is jeopardized by overburdening with subject matter (mark system). Overburdening necessarily leads to superficiality and a lack of culture. Teaching should be so that the things offered are experienced as a valuable gift and not as an unpleasant duty.”

Reinhard Scherm, former PTB Department "Fundamentals of Physics and Metrology": Do something else – unless you are “motivated by your drives” to look at any cost behind the scenes.