New truths become evident when new tools become available.

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

There is at present in the United States a powerful activist movement that is anti-intellectual, anti-science, and anti-technology. If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the Earth, we must depend on the continued revolutions brought about by science.

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

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

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

We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to work together for their solution so that your world will be better than ours and the world of your children even better.