“At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology,...” — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote

“At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.”

“People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you do not know what the genes mean, and you have no methods for changing them, and you can't do experiments with humans like you can with animals.”

“I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books.”

“I just kind of figured that the marine biology would be a career, and the art would be something I did for my own self-expression.”

“Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read rather extensively. The Latin that goes with this kind of interest proved useful when I had to generate a few terms and names for cell biology.”

“My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.”