Author Profile
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
1921 – 2011 • American • Scientist
25
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Collected Meditations
Showing 25 quotesInitially, 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
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
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.— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
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