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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as examplified by RIA [radioimmunoassay], has shown the potential for opening new vistas in science and medicine — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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By seventh grade, I was committed to mathematics. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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

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I worked for 22 years with Sol Berson. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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We must believe in ourselves or no one will believe in us. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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My point of view is if you want to move up, examine first yourself. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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All women scientists should marry, rear children, cook, and clean in order to achieve fulfillment, to be a complete woman. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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In the late '30's when I was in college, physics - and in particular, nuclear physics - was the most exciting field in the world. — 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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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New truths become evident when new tools become available. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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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. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow