21 Quotes by Gertrude B. Elion

Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t.

The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I’ve developed are rewards in themselves.

That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, ‘This is the disease you’re going to have to work against.’ I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.