There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty.

I have the best husband one could dream of; I could never have imagined finding one like him. He is a true gift of heaven, and the more we live together the more we love each other.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.