47 Quotes by Rosalyn Sussman Yalow



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    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.

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    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.

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    Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.

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    Some are very hostile if mistakes are pointed out. I'm not. If I make a mistake, I make a mistake.

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    I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.

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    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.

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