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Rosalyn Yalow
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“The world cannot afford the loss of the talents of half its people if we are to solve the many problems which beset us.”
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“We must believe in ourselves or no one will believe in us.”
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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.”
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“The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.”
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“... the trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.”
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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.”
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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.”
Rosalyn Yalow, U.S. medical physicist, Nobel Prize winner
(1921 - 2011)
Full name: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.