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.

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

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

In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

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.

New truths become evident when new tools become available.

The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.