Chemist Quote by Gertrude B. Elion
“Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.”
“Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.”
![“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)
