In systemic searches for embryonic lethal mutants of Drosophila melanogaster we have identified 15 loci which when mutated alter the segmental patter…

- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

I know labs where women refuse to make a coffee for others because they don't want to be seen doing seemingly female things. I think this is stupid. …

- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Not everybody is talented for doing research. I think many women prefer to look for an easier job after their dissertations because it is very demand…

- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagina…

- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

I think women are just as gifted when it comes to science as men are. But I think their wishes and desires are different and this is also shaped by t…

- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss abou…

- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.

- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

The drive to want to know is innate in people. You cannot influence this. I think in contrast it is harmful if you push kids too far in a particular …

- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

If woman wants to have kids and work a little less she has a big disadvantage compared to a male colleague who has a stay-at-home wife packing his su…

- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard