4 Inspirational Quotes from Women in STEM to Start the New Year!

"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say."

- Barbara McClintock, cytogeneticist and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Dufresne, S. (2018, October 8). Barbara McClintock: Against The Genetic Grain. Hackaday. https://hackaday.com/2017/12/28/barbara-mcclintock-against-the-genetic-grain/

"Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience, and experiment."

- Rosalind Franklin, chemist, molecular biologist, and one of the key figures behind unlocking the structure of human DNA

Rosalind Franklin would be 100 years old today | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. (2021, February 5). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://www.cshl.edu/archives-blog/rosalind-franklin-would-be-100-years-old-today/

"Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers."

- Emilie du Chatelet, mathematician, physicist, and author

Wills, M. (2021, January 13). Émilie Du Châtelet: Heroine of the Enlightenment. JSTOR Daily. https://daily.jstor.org/emilie-du-chatelet/

"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."

- Marie Curie, 'female STEM superhero,' first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman in history to ever win it twice, and the only human to ever win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences

Archive, V. (2021, April 19). The Half Life of Marie Curie. Lyceum. https://kenyonlyceum.wordpress.com/2019/12/14/the-half-life-of-marie-curie/

Happy 2024 STEMnists! Let's make it another great year :)