Elion Quotes

#1. I had fallen in love with a young man ... , and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis ... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery ...

Gertrude B. Elion

#2. Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.

Dolly Parton

#3. That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.

Gertrude B. Elion

#4. The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Alexander Pope

#5. I was a child with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and remember enjoying all of my courses almost equally. When it came time at the end of my high school career to choose a major in which to specialize, I was in a quandary.

Gertrude B. Elion

#6. Is Obama satanic?" he asked me. I was grateful for the conversation starter - I consider anything that staves off social awkwardness to be a blessing - but I couldn't lie.

Jon Ronson

#7. I'm not wise at all. I told you, I know nothing. I know books, and I know how to string words together
it doesn't mean I know how to speak about the tings that matter most to me."
"But you're doing it now
in a way."
"Yes, in a way
that's how I always say things: in a way.

Andre Aciman

#8. I was born in New York City on a cold January night when the water pipes in our apartment froze and burst. Fortunately, my mother was in the hospital rather than at home at the time.

Gertrude B. Elion

#9. I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

Gertrude B. Elion

#10. I loved to learn everything, everything in sight, and I was never satisfied that I knew everything there was to know in each of my courses.

Gertrude B. Elion

#11. 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.

Gertrude B. Elion

#12. The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.

Gertrude B. Elion

#13. Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they all look alike!

Gertrude B. Elion

#14. We can't possibly fight all the terrorists in all the countries where they exist because we don't have the money or manpower to do so.

Michael Huffington

#15. Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.

Gertrude B. Elion