During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.

The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors.

I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.

Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.

When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.

DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.