We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are tostart moving towards that goal, we must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

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.

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

New truths become evident when new tools become available.

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

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.