Gertrude B. Elion

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…

— Gertrude B. Elion

I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided…

— Gertrude B. Elion

I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research,…

— Gertrude B. Elion

The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.

— Gertrude B. Elion

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

I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute…

— Gertrude B. Elion

That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to…

— Gertrude B. Elion

Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you…

— Gertrude B. Elion

It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's…

— Gertrude B. Elion

Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women…

— Gertrude B. Elion

People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that…

— Gertrude B. Elion