“Dan spent two years convincing everybody  about his discovery. This is a revolution in physics, in crystallography.”

“I had more or less the same alloys as Shechtman at the same time, but I did not recognize them to be quasicrystals.”

“It is not always enough to make the discovery, you have to fight and advocate on its behalf…without Danny’s patience, stubbornness, and tenacity it would have been much more challenging.”

“It became clear that an old paradigm had crashed and a new one was emerging.”

“Dan Shechtman is a real teacher and mentor and role model in the faculty.”

“Danny Shechtman made a very important discovery. I think this discovery is an excellent example for which a Nobel Prize should be given.”

“There is a community of international scientists who couldn’t communicate with each other before the discovery of quasicrystals and now speak the language of quasiperiodicity.”

 “There is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists.”