Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Quotes
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My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as revolutionary as its impact on endocrinology in the 60s.
We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.
If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.
The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.
The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.
We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.
All women scientists should marry, rear children, cook, and clean in order to achieve fulfillment, to be a complete woman.
I have long felt that the trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.
The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that it was because women didn't want them.
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. In the past, few women have tried, and even fewer have succeeded.
Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics.