The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.

Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.