The more boundless your vision, the more real you are.
It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.
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.
Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.
I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams.
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.
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.
The uncreative mind can spot the wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot the wrong questions" The question has never been: Do we have the money? The question has always been: Do we have the resources?
It's always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don't believe in repeating.
When you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come
Solid state I don't like, even though I started it.