Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
The only difference between men and women in science is that the women have the babies. This makes it more difficult for women in science but should not be seen as a barrier, for it is merely another challenge to be overcome.Collection: Science
I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.Collection: Happiness
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Failure
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.Collection: Age
We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to work together for their solution so that your world will be better than ours and the world of your children even better.Collection: Knowledge
I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.Collection: Science
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; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.
My point of view is if you want to move up, examine first yourself.
Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma if you're right. And if you're really lucky, you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation.
Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate that I chose to do acceptable things, for if I had chosen otherwise, no one could have deflected me from my path.
They told me that, as a woman, I'd never get into graduate school in physics, so they got me a job as a secretary at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and promised that, if I were a good girl, I would take courses there.
If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors.
I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read.
By seventh grade, I was committed to mathematics.
In the late '30's when I was in college, physics - and in particular, nuclear physics - was the most exciting field in the world.
To primitive man, the sky was wonderful, mysterious and awesome, but he could not even dream of what was within the golden disk or silver points of light so far beyond his reach.
Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.
For the past 30 years, I have been committed to the development and application of radioisotopic methodology to analyze the fine structure of biologic systems.
Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics.
I worked for 22 years with Sol Berson.
I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.
Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play tennis, I don't play music, but I have a great time.
Some are very hostile if mistakes are pointed out. I'm not. If I make a mistake, I make a mistake.
There's lots of prejudice, but if you examine yourself, you can make It. Of course, this doesn't make me too popular with some quarters in the women s movement.
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.Collection: Determination
The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.Collection: Teaching
New truths become evident when new tools become available.Collection: Tools
We must believe in ourselves or no one will believe in us.Collection: Confidence
We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are tostart moving towards that goal, we must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Ideas
There is at present in the United States a powerful activist movement that is anti-intellectual, anti-science, and anti-technology. If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the Earth, we must depend on the continued revolutions brought about by science.Collection: Powerful
The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.Collection: Opportunity
The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as exemplified by RIA, has shown the potential for opening new vistas in science and medicine.Collection: Science
As long as you're learning you're not old.Collection: Nursing
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.Collection: Strong Women
If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors. We transmit to you, the next generation, the total sum of our knowledge. Yours is the responsibility to use it, add to it, and transmit it to your children.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Thinking
Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.Collection: Science
In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.Collection: Past
All women scientists should marry, rear children, cook, and clean in order to achieve fulfillment, to be a complete woman.Collection: Children
Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate that I chose to do acceptable things, for if I had chosen otherwise no one could have deflected me from my path. ... The Chairman of the Physics Department, looking at this record, could only say 'That A- confirms that women do not do well at laboratory work'. But I was no longer a stubborn, determined child, but rather a stubborn, determined graduate student. The hard work and subtle discrimination were of no moment.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: War
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.Collection: Impact