The world cannot afford the loss of the talents of half its people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.
Source: Referring to the paucity of females in many scientific and technical areas; Nobel address, Stockholm, 10 Dec 1977.
-- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, (Jul 19 1921-2011), US medical physicist; She developed the radioimmunoassay to measure amounts of biological substances in the body; second woman to win the Nobel Prize in medicine, 1977.