I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much. — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
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… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves. — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much. — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis...… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.'… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good to be true that someone will pay you for enjoying yourself. I've been very fortunate that my work led to useful drugs for a variety of serious illnesses. The thrill of seeing people get well… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share
Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
![“People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of…” quote by Gertrude B. Elion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cf3/gertrude-b-elion-38568_aim_people-ask-me-often-whether-the-nobel-pr_3182419.jpg)