Average Quote by Francis Crick

Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which…

— John Desmond Bernal

I could hardly believe that she really existed, that she wasn't a dream. There was something miraculous about Dorothy Stratten.

— Peter Bogdanovich

Marie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare - changing science. And as hard as that is, she had to…

— Alan Alda

I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about…

— Sophie Thompson

Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition…

— Deborah Eisenberg

Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and social democracy…

— Christopher Hitchens

“She could not fail to observe that a life of academic distinction was singularly ill rewarded. She had no desire whatever to teach and…

— Agatha Christie

When I got to 10th grade at Booker T. Washington High, I had a teacher, Miss Geraldine Nesbitt. I think she came from New…

— Claudette Colvin

I think that Eleanor Roosevelt really learned about the limits of power and influence from Arthurdale. She could not make some things happen. And…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

“In the popular folklore of American history, there is a sense in which the founders’ various achievements in natural philosophy—Franklin’s electrical experiments, Jefferson’s botany—serve…

— Steven Johnson

“She was her own kind of dreamer, a blind mathematician skating along the thin surface of life, believing in the saving power of logic,…

— Jessica Shattuck

No individual has done more to help me pursue a career in science than my wife of forty-five years. I met Enid Cassandra Morgan…

— Robert Fogel