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

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.

We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

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

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

New truths become evident when new tools become available.

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.

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

As long as you're learning you're not old.

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

People are only rational on the surface.

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.

People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

I'm eventually gonna take the Daryl Hannah parts.

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

He's caused the Chelsea defence no amount of problems.

As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity

I teach Sunday school, motherf*****.