18 Quotes by Tu Youyou

Every scientist dreams of doing something that can help the world.

When you are entrusted with an assignment, you do your best.

Artemisinin... is a true gift from old Chinese medicine. But this is not the only instance in which the wisdom of Chinese medicine has borne fruit.

My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.

The discovery of artemisinin was an example of successful collective efforts.

Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.

Project 523 was both a good and a bad thing. They held so many meetings, and there were so many competing centres, it was a real mess. Nearly every province had their own research centre, and they all asked me to share my research, which I did. But that's no way to do science. They wasted a lot of money and a lot of time.

After graduation from high school, I attended the university entrance examination, and fortunately, I was accepted by the Department of Pharmacy and became a student at the Medical School of Peking University.

I saw a lot of children who were in the latest stages of malaria. Those kids died very quickly.