My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.

My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.

I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.

I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.

If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

So exquisitely perfect was the darkness of the heavens above that one would have difficulty believing it was a prison to the passengers and crew of The Black Witch.

The health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people.

An obscure flesh-and-blood Gascon, forgotten by History, transformed into a legendary giant by the novelist's genius

I'm at best on stage. It's one of the only places where I actually can feel like a million bucks.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God.

An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more so! He speaks with a Formal Sigh.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.