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

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

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

If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.

The body does whatever it wants. I am not my body; I am my mind.

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.

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.