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. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard More Quotes by Christiane Nusslein-Volhard More Quotes From Christiane Nusslein-Volhard I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to buy things, made children's books and toys for us. We had much freedom and were encouraged by our parents to do interesting things. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard childhood freedom happy children Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard animals something work numbers People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you do not know what the genes mean, and you have no methods for changing them, and you can't do experiments with humans like you can with animals. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard think you change people I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard born war father children I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard child reading remember ideas I am often asked why there is discrimination against women in science. And I have given it some thought. With prejudicial attitudes, you can't really do much. You can point out when people discriminate and ask them not to. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard i-am you women science In German science, we have a special problem. We lose talented women at the time they get pregnant. Some of it occurs because they are encouraged - by their husbands, bosses and the government - to take long maternity leaves. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard women time science long
