Female Scientists Quotes

My inbox is now bulging with touching emails from young women scientists who have been kind enough to write and thank me for inspiring them and helping them on their way. It has also been of great comfort to me to see many women at the top of science testifying for my record in supporting women scientists.

I think the question is, are there women and have there been women who want to do science and could be doing great science, but they never really got the opportunity?

We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

If you keep telling girls they're less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of women who are good at it.

Last year, I was very shocked when I went to a debate on Women's Day. They had a survey, and they were asking these girls how many women inventors we have, how many women scientists do we have. And you'd be shocked that hardly anyone knew that Ada Lovelace was there behind computer science, that Marie Curie still remains iconic with two Nobel prizes. So there's a lot of homework to do to actually make -- to remove all these gender biases at a very young age; instill that confidence in that girl; to tell her that she can do as well if not better than her brother.

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer, you know, she didn't even get paid to be a scientist. And yet, she was doing Nobel Prize-winning work. How ridiculous is that?

One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.

My parents did give me a lot of books - biographies of Marie Curie - and I did read them, because I was interested.

I grew up in environment that had more women in science.

Women scientists' hands are like every other woman's hands.

Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.

I mean I certainly tell the Maria Goeppert-Mayer story and I'm happy that life isn't like that. I'm glad there were trailblazers like her and Marie Curie.

We are going to see a steady stream, I predict, of Nobel prizes coming out of chemistry and given to women.

But I don't see myself as a woman in science. I see myself as a scientist.

There aren't that many female role models in science. There are a couple of women, but mostly you've got Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss - they're all guys. Bill Nye the Science Guy. I love that guy, but it's all guys.

There are lot of brilliant women in chemistry, a little later than some of the men, but they are amazing.

I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation.

Overall, female scientists have fewer resources than male scientists, just as poor people have less access to health care. But if you compare male and female scientists with identical resources, you find that the women are just as likely to be successful.

I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering.