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

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.

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

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology.

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.

Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand.

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

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

There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.

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 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.

We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea.

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.

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

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

In some cases radiation reduces the incidence of cancer.

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

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

Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society.

Medical physics is an applied area of physics.

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

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

My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.

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.

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

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

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.

I can't get no satisfaction.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth.

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.