38 Quotes by Donna Strickland

We read to our kids at bedtime because we want to have literacy, but what are we doing to make sure kids are equally fascinated by science?

I was very good at math and physics. And that's all. I can't do music, art, so there was not a lot of choice for me. I think people should go with their strength and that was my strength.

It is understandable that people want to know how it affects them. But as a scientist, I would hope society would be equally interested in fundamental science.

Sometimes you just have to be happy you get one chance in life and not worry too much about whether you get two.

I've now been encouraged by many people to apply and so I did apply and I have now been made, full professor. I'm happy about that.

I feel unbelievably honored to be, you know, with Marie Curie and Goeppert Mayer. It's like, how can I be in the same breath as those three?

I was a very shy kid and both my best friend and my sister went to Waterloo, and I just thought no I can't, I can't go there because I'll just hang on to them and no one will even know who the heck I am and that's no way to go through life.

I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they've always been seen.

I still try to make different types of lasers that other people don't have.