"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."

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Source : "A Probe For Fine Structure Of Biologic Systems". Rosalyn Sussman Yalow's Nobel Lecture in Stockholm, Sweden, December 8, 1977.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

#Impact Quotes #Intuition Quotes #Balls Quotes

“Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal foe!”
“Some of my greatest memories were on a little league field. We didn't even have any uniforms.”

Source : "Rich "Goose" Gossage". Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 4, 2007.
“No, I can never rely on Tim to make me pretty.”
“Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident to him, and no amount of logical discourse will move him from his belief. If a Mormon and Catholic were to debate the merits of their respective religions, neither could see his own inconsistencies and logical fallacies, but would see the other's quite clearly.”
“One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.”
“Quotation lovers love rare words.”
“... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.”

Source : Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.439, Hachette UK
“I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.”

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