Zitat des Tages von 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.
I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.
Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics.
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 worked for 22 years with Sol Berson.
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.
Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.
By seventh grade, I was committed to mathematics.
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.
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.