Scientist Quotes

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

In some cases radiation reduces the incidence of cancer.

In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant.

I would not encourage everyone to take up this profession. Not everyone is suited for any particular field.

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.

I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found a trained MD (doctor) to take over my role.

I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.

I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.

I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen!

I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

I am not unhappy that my contribution was not recognized. I am sure it helped my career.

The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.

It is likely that we need more radiation to improve our longevity.

I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.

If someone is interested in medicine and also in physics and they like working with people and communicate well with others, I would strongly encourage them.

To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.