16 Quotes by Jennifer Doudna

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

I think that for a lot of women there's a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields.

There's already a lot of active research going on using the Crispr technology to fix diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy or cystic fibrosis or Huntington's disease. They're all diseases that have known genetic causes, and we now have the technology that can repair those mutations to provide, we hope, patients with a normal life.

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

I don't think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am.

I was kind of a nerdy, geeky type. And I loved math. People teased me about it. I felt pretty much like an outcast.

Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don't know the answer.

The idea that you would affect evolution is a very profound thing.

I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.