Women In Science Quotes:

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

- Marie Curie

source: "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Confidence, Empowering Women, Perserverance

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

- Grace Hopper

source: "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

topic: Education, Running, Wall, Women In Science

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

- Marie Curie

source: "Pierre Curie". Book by Marie Curie translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, 1923.

topic: Educational, World, Individual, Marie, Women In Science

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

- Rosalind Franklin

source: "Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA‎". Book by Brenda Maddox (p.61), 2002.

topic: Everyday, Scientist, Should, Women In Science, Science Life

Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.

- Gertrude B. Elion

topic: Hard Work, Saws, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Women In Science

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.

- Sally Ride

topic: Girl, Teacher, Encouragement, Women In Science

I grew up in environment that had more women in science.

- Fabiola Gianotti

source: "Would you rather be sexy or smart?". Interview with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2014.

topic: Science, Environment, Grew Up, Women In Science

It is shameful that there are so few women in science In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men. In Chinese society, a woman is valued for what she is, and men encourage her to accomplishments yet she remains eternally feminine.

- Chien-Shiung Wu

source: "Queen of Physics". "Newsweek" no. 61, 20, May 20, 1963.

topic: Men, America, Chinese, Spinsters, Women In Science

Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.

- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Successful, Thinking, Danger, Women In Science

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

- Joanna Russ

source: Joanna Russ (2007). “The Country You Have Never Seen: Essays and Reviews”

topic: Fiction, Science Fiction, Plenty, Women In Science

I once wrote a book on women in science. I realized when I was interviewing them that they were the equivalent of writers, or anyone else who tries to make art out of life. Through science they had reached the expressive.

- Vivian Gornick

source: "We knew we were not liberated and were never going to be liberated. But we knew what liberation was". The Believer Interview, believermagblog.wordpress.com. March 24, 2014.

topic: Art, Book, Trying, Women In Science