Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

My motto has always been: A career open to all talents, without distinctions of birth.

I'm not perfect and I don't pretend to be.

The essence of science is to ask the right questions.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world.