There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they’ve always been seen."

Arguably, my student status and perhaps my gender were also my downfall with respect to the Nobel Prize, which was awarded to Professor Antony Hewish and Professor Martin Ryle. At the time, science was still perceived as being carried out by distinguished men.

Many scholars working in the humanities have already shown interest in brain research. For years, contemporary theory in the humanities has left the body and biology out of their discussions.