Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working …

- Rebecca Skloot

I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

- Rebecca Skloot

Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.

- Rebecca Skloot

Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them whi…

- Rebecca Skloot

For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of sc…

- Rebecca Skloot

But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while…

- Rebecca Skloot

Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

- Rebecca Skloot

The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is …

- Rebecca Skloot