I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.