The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation.

Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied research; to me, it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.