Jules Verne

"Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real"

Galileo Galilei

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered, the point is to discover them"

Theodore Von Karman

"Scientist investigate that which already is, engineers create that which has never been"

Jules Henri Poincare

"There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved"

Galileo Galilei

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual"

Niels Bohr

"The opposite of a right statement is a wrong statement. The opposite of a deep truth can also be a deep truth"

Robert Oppenheimer

"There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality"

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

"The first question which we have a right to ask will be, ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?"

Bertolt Brecht, through the mouth of Galileo

"Unhappy is the land that needs a hero"

Thomas A. Edison

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward"

Promotion, development and support of nano-bio technologies

Scientific Council

The Scientific Council has a duration of four years and it is composed by the Association' s Founding Members and other members elected by the Assembly of Partners. The Council has to draw up the programme of social, cultural and scientific activities envisaged by the Statute, as well as overseeing the execution of the resolutions of the General Assembly of Partners.

The current members of the Scientific Council are:

Luigi AMBROSIO