Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.

My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as revolutionary as its impact on endocrinology in the 60s.

We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

New truths become evident when new tools become available.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

We must believe in ourselves or no one will believe in us.

In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

As long as you're learning you're not old.

Express your emotions in a multidimensional manner. Don’t just speak

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.

I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

If I never had any mental health issues, there's no doubt in my mind I'd still be playing.

I was the owner of my own darkness.

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

I'm ghetto chic, I'm where the hood and high fashion meet