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

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

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

First fill your heart with an abundance of love. Then let the light of your love enlighten the whole world.

Awakening will be sudden and shocking. You and I must be there for her awakening. We won't be there for (her?) later on. That's for other hands to do.

There’s an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another’s degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.

Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.

There are people who study germs. I believe they are called Germans

What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

I need at least two months to try and figure out where the centre of the bat is.

Good public speaking is based on good private thinking

If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.