I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.
Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.
Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
My undergraduate, I double-majored in biology and chemistry. Biology was kind of my love.
I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.
I've never thought I wanted to quit in my research. I would always fail in experiments, which I did at least three times a day.
I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.
If I were not able anymore to come to the lab, that's retirement. Or if I had no more ideas of things. Every year, there's something new that comes along that's too exciting to quit.
I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
There's a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before - that is mind-boggling. It's worth everything.
Of course there are depressing periods when nothing appears to be happening. But whenever anything was happening, and even when nothing was happening, it was fun just to do phage experiments.
I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.
I love to do things like sail and hike, but they don't give me the satisfaction of knowing the potential of something you've learned in the lab.
With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.
If there's something that someone else can do, let them do it. If I couldn't do it uniquely, let someone else do it and I would get back to the lab.
I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.
I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.
Science is not the glamour that's portrayed in films. It's a lot of drudgery work, along with the wonderfully exciting periods when you discover something.
I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
I did. I still do. It's kind of grown to a "Ren and Stimpy" kind of lab, which is fun.
There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!
My lab is the place where I put my brain out on my fingers.
It's not very fun to do spectroscopy.
It's not fair to look at me and my husband as a couple when it comes to work. In the lab we are colleagues. We have the same vision and we both are very ambitious. I think ambitious people find ambitious people to play with.
