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• ‟ I had hoped to do a lot more to help promote science in this country and in Europe, but I cannot see how that can happen. I have become toxic. I have been hung to dry by academic institutes who have not even bothered to ask me for my side of affairs.

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• ‟ I think people love fundamental science.

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• ‟ I have fallen in love with people in the lab, and people in the lab have fallen in love with me, and it's very disruptive to the science because it's terribly important that, in a lab, people are on a level playing field.

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• ‟ Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

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• ‟ At the age of 14, I moved across town to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where science played a much larger role in the curriculum.

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• ‟ I am extremely sorry for the remarks made during the recent Women in Science lunch at the world conference of science journalists in Seoul, Korea.

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• ‟ I fought for seven years to have creche facilities at the Okinawa Institute of Science of Technology - and was ultimately successful. Less successful have been efforts to get a creche at the new Crick Institute in London, but this is something I will continue to push for.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Most great advances have been a collaboration. That is the joy of science for me.

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• ‟ Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

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