DNA, like a tape recording, carries a message in which there are specific instructions for a job to be done.

I feel now, as we did then, that for an effective approach to the problem of nucleic acid biosynthesis, it was essential to understand the biosynthesis of the simple nucleotides and the coenzymes and to have these concepts and methodology well in hand.

Without advances, medicine regresses and reverts to witchcraft.

No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

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."

I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.