Occupation: Physicist Birth: July 19, 1921 Death: May 30, 2011
The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us..
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 toward….
We must believe in ourselves or no one will believe in us..
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 revoluti….
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old..
The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public..
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..
New truths become evident when new tools become available..
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 togeth….
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination..
As long as you're learning you're not old..
The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as exemplified by RIA, has ….
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 wo….
Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle..
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 ….
All women scientists should marry, rear children, cook, and clean in order to achieve fulfillment, to be a complete woman..
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 ….
We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succ….
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….
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….
In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded..