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Top 15 Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quotes (2025 Update)

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote: “Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.”

1. “Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.”

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote: “In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.”

2. “In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.”

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote: “It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.”

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

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote: “In my age group I don’t know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception. You can be very proud of it. But you are also very isolated.”

4. “In my age group I don’t know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception. You can be very proud of it. But you are also very isolated.”

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote: “I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams.”

5. “I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams.”

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote: “I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.”

6. “I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.”

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote: “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 direction.”

7. “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 direction.”

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote: “I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions – there are differences.”

8. “I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions – there are differences.”

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote: “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 the society in which they live.”

9. “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 the society in which they live.”

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote: “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 imagination.”

10. “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 imagination.”

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote: “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 about them.”

11. “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 about them.”

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote: “I think there is too much attention on mentoring. If people want to be scientists, they will figure out how to do it. They need to figure it out by themselves.”

12. “I think there is too much attention on mentoring. If people want to be scientists, they will figure out how to do it. They need to figure it out by themselves.”

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote: “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 suitcases.”

13. “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 suitcases.”

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote: “I had a very intense relationship with my father, who was always extremely interested in what we kids were doing. I actually think the secret of many successful women is having a father who encourages them.”

14. “I had a very intense relationship with my father, who was always extremely interested in what we kids were doing. I actually think the secret of many successful women is having a father who encourages them.”

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote: “I think women who are pretty certainly have an advantage in any field, in any profession. When a girl is born people still say: Oh, I’m glad that she is pretty. They don’t look at whether she is intelligent.”

15. “I think women who are pretty certainly have an advantage in any field, in any profession. When a girl is born people still say: Oh, I’m glad that she is pretty. They don’t look at whether she is intelligent.”

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote: “I was always trying to look modest and natural. I don’t like women who come into the lab and you see immediately that it took them two hours to dress in the morning.”

16. “I was always trying to look modest and natural. I don’t like women who come into the lab and you see immediately that it took them two hours to dress in the morning.”

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote: “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. Why not make a coffee, bring a cake? I do it.”

17. “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. Why not make a coffee, bring a cake? I do it.”

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quote: “At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.”

18. “At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.”

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