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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (born 20 October 1942) is a German developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner.

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In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.

Difference, Differences, Genes, Mathematics, Men, Simply

I know labs where women refuse to make a coffee for others because they don't want to be seen doing seemingly female things. I think this is stupid. Why not make a coffee, bring a cake? I do it.

Cake, Coffee, Labs, Stupid, Thinking

I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.

Children, Choose, Doors, Hard Work, Keeping, Work

I had a very intense relationship with my father, who was always extremely interested in what we kids were doing. I actually think the secret of many successful women is having a father who encourages them.

Father, Kids, Successful, Extremely, Think, Secret

In my age group I don't know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception. You can be very proud of it. But you are also very isolated.

Age, Exception, Groups, Know, Single, Successful

Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.

Ace, Hard Work, Imagination, Liked, School, Thinking

The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them.

Father, Kids, Pressure, Good, Fuss

The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been extremely cooperative in our hands - and has revealed to us some of its innermost secrets and tricks for developing from a single celled egg to a complex living being of great beauty and harmony. . . . None of us expected that our work would be so successful or that our findings would ever have relevance to medicine.

Animal, Egg, Eggs, Innermost, Secrets, Successful

In systemic searches for embryonic lethal mutants of Drosophila melanogaster we have identified 15 loci which when mutated alter the segmental patterns of the larva. These loci probably represent the majority of such genes in Drosophila. The phenotypes of the mutant embryos indicate that the process of segmentation involves at least three levels of spatial organization: the entire egg as developmental unit, a repeat unit with the length of two segments, and the individual segment.

Embryonic, Lethal, Organization, Science, Two, Unit

I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams.

Dream, Dreams, Fascinated, Genetics, Loved, Working

I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.

Creativity, Differences, Intelligence, Men, Passion

The drive to want to know is innate in people. You cannot influence this. I think in contrast it is harmful if you push kids too far in a particular direction.

Innate, Kids, People, Push, Thinking

Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.

Successful, Thinking, Danger, Biggest, Think