Devotion Quote by John Desmond Bernal

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“It required a strong effort to abstract her thoughts from other interests sufficiently to attend to this, but she was rewarded for her exertions…

— Ann Radcliffe

“On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the adults in…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the same class…

— Francis Crick

“It was best to put an end to everything now, while she was still brave and healthy enough to die”

— Paolo Coelho

Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in…

— Louise Fletcher

“they filled her with the most astonishing sensation of synthesis-as though all the most disparate elements of her biography were at last knitting together.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Even as she was about to read the mysterious, tortured hero's declaration of undying passion to the piquant young heroine, Rosalind found herself obliged…

— Emma Clifton

“She was lionized, canonized, Nobel Prized (and was wonderfully inspirational, as disinterested in acclaim as in her ostracism, working until her nineties).”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Leading the way forward at great cost to herself, her magnificent energy was so intense that it tumbles down still through many lives.”

— Theresa Sjoquist

Hilary Putnam died of cancer at the age of 89. Those of us who had the good fortune to know Putnam as mentees, colleagues,…

— Martha Nussbaum