"The girls got sent to the domestic science room and the boys to the science lab. ... I protested — unsuccessfully."

"There is now a thirteenth commandment "Thou shalt not make predictions in x-ray astronomy, lest the Lord thy God reve…"

"Science doesn't always go forwards. It's a bit like doing a Rubik's cube. You sometimes have to make more of a mess w…"

"One of the things women bring to a research project, or indeed any project, is they come from a different place, they…"

"By the end of my PhD I could swing a sledgehammer."

"I switched on the high speed recorder and it came blip.... blip.... blip.... blip.... blip.... Clearly the same famil…"

"I find that quakerism and research science fit together very, very well. In quakerism you're expected to develop your…"

"Science is a quest for understanding. A search for truth seems to me to be full of pitfalls. We all have different un…"

"You can actually do extremely well out of not getting a Nobel prize, and I have had so many prizes, and so many honou…"

"If we assume we've arrived: we stop searching, we stop developing."