The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse, to say that error means fraud, then we cannot function as scientists.

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have been shown to be in error.

My morale has never been higher than since I stopped asking for grants to keep my lab going.

I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.

Spirituality is principal thing. Seek the spirituality of your soul.

Sometimes, we can’t help but to shed tears!

impossibility exist only in the weak minds

Hopelessness makes you a futile wanderer. Hope makes your life a wonder

For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.

I do believe that if millions of people do stand up and fight back, we can stop Donald Trump from doing some really awful things.

Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

I just feel that the East and the West are two different worlds. I sometimes get saddened when I see that very few writers of color are published or reviewed in East Coast presses and magazines.

It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.