"I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change."

"I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers."

"Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard."

"Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly."

"Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion."

"It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy."

"Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness."

"In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons."