We must believe in ourselves or no one will believe in us.

All women scientists should marry, rear children, cook, and clean in order to achieve fulfillment, to be a complete woman.

My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as revolutionary as its impact on endocrinology in the 60s.

If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors. We transmit to you, the next generation, the total sum of our knowledge. Yours is the responsibility to use it, add to it, and transmit it to your children.

New truths become evident when new tools become available.

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.