Quotes by Alice Roberts - Page 2

At Bristol I found it quite difficult to continue trying to balance three things - teaching, research and public engagement, for which television was obviously the most prominent part.
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Bristol
Engagement
Prominent
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When I started doing television, I was very aware my clothes would be obvious and it was a great opportunity to promote brands which are made with respect to people and the environment.
Alice Roberts /
Brands
Clothes
Environment
Great Opportunity
Obvious
Promote
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If a group of humans began to run regularly, perhaps allowing them to hunt or scavenge more effectively, anatomical changes would follow, especially among the still-developing youngsters.
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Allowing
Youngsters
Effectively
Hunt
Regularly
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I love Christmas. At this very special time of year, when the sun appears only fleetingly to those of us living in the northern hemisphere, I feel a deep connection with ancient ancestors.
Alice Roberts /
Hemisphere
Love Time Christmas
Ancestors
Northern
Special Time
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The history of palaeontology is littered with examples of famous frauds and fakes, often with eminent researchers in the field being thoroughly hoodwinked by some fairly shoddy fabrications.
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Researchers
Fairly
Eminent
Examples
Frauds
Littered
Shoddy
Thoroughly
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One of the big factors in me going to an independent school was the bullying at junior school. But it wasn't an easy choice for my parents. And now, I do have issues with independent schools.
Alice Roberts /
Bullying
Factors
Independent
Choice
Junior
Schools
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We're not the only mammals who are partial to blackberries, far from it. Foxes and badgers will also gobble them up, helping to distribute the seeds, which survive the transit through the gut.
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Foxes
Mammals
Seeds
Distribute
Gut
Partial
Transit
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I consider myself to be a relatively sceptical person. I like to see evidence for myself, and try to avoid speculating beyond available evidence. But I also have to accept some things on trust.
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Evidence
Relatively
Sceptical
Some Things
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It is so stimulating for young children to hear someone who does science talking about it. It can be so exciting and inspiring. It is easy to get younger school children enthused about science.
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Inspiring
Young Children
Stimulating
Enthused
School Children
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Around 4000BC, the Mesolithic, hunter-gatherer way of life here gave way to a more settled, farming existence. Those Neolithic people built wooden trackways across the salt marshes and reed beds.
Alice Roberts /
Existence
Farming
Salt
Life People Way
Across
Reed
Beds
Gave
Settled
Wooden
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I gave up meat when I was 18, and it was an ethical decision. I loved the taste, and went on holiday to Greece, fairly gorging myself on lamb souvlaki before taking the plunge into a meatless existence.
Alice Roberts /
Ethical
Greece
Holiday
Meat
Plunge
Fairly
Lamb
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I've seen many dinosaur fossils, some mounted in museums, others in the process of being extracted from their rocky matrix, and it has never occurred to me that any could be anything other than genuine.
Alice Roberts /
Fossils
Genuine
Museums
Dinosaur
Extracted
Matrix
Occurred
Rocky
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Choosing my career was always based on job satisfaction rather than financial security. I wanted to get a job in science; I enjoyed being a surgeon and I now enjoy being an academic and having a media career.
Alice Roberts /
Academic
Financial Security
Satisfaction
Choosing
Surgeon
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I was effectively unemployed after my son was born. I resigned from Bristol because I wasn't happy with the way my career was going then discovered I was pregnant when I was out of a job, but I was freelancing.
Alice Roberts /
Bristol
Pregnant
Resigned
Unemployed
Effectively
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We have plenty of young women coming into biology and medicine, but we don't have enough coming into physics and engineering. It's a really weird thing because, of course, all these subjects are completely neutral.
Alice Roberts /
Biology
Engineering
Medicine
Physics
Plenty
Subjects
Young Women
Weird
Neutral
Weird Thing
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One way I try to manage it is by not having a princess party for my daughter and trying to do things that are not so stereotyped. But if she's invited to a princess party, of course I'm not going to stop her going.
Alice Roberts /
Daughter
Invited
Manage
Princess
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I usually turn over when ads appear on television. But - very rarely - I am gripped by a particularly beautiful one, and wonder if art historians of the future will point to these televisual delights as our best art.
Alice Roberts /
Ads
Appear
Delights
Historians
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When I was in my 20s, and even though I was studying medicine, I didn't ever really think that my body would fail. Now I'm in my 40s, I have to face a different reality - I, like everyone else, am slowly falling apart.
Alice Roberts /
Medicine
Everyone Else
Falling
Slowly
Studying
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Looking in detail at human anatomy, I'm always left with two practically irreconcilable thoughts: our bodies are wonderful, intricate masterpieces; and then - they are cobbled-together, rag-bag, sometimes clunking machines.
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Anatomy
Intricate
Left
Machines
Two
Wonderful
Looking
Then
Bodies
Detail
Human
Practically
Irreconcilable
Masterpieces
Thoughts
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Of course 'Horizon' had made an impact on me from a young age, but it was also humbling to meet and interview eminent scientists, and hear their high opinion of the series and of the science presented on the BBC more generally.
Alice Roberts /
Horizon
Humbling
Young Age
Bbc
Eminent
Interview
Presented
Scientists
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Evolutionary biologists have long pondered the phenomenon of the changing colours of autumn leaves. It's possible that the red pigments are manufactured in the leaf as a side-effect of something else that's happening at this time.
Alice Roberts /
Autumn
Phenomenon
Red
Biologists
Changing
Colours
Evolutionary
Happening
Leaf
Leaves
Something Else
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Embryology reveals surprising similarities between early embryos of seemingly quite different animals. And it also shows that some structures that may look very different later on have fundamental similarities in the way they form.
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Embryos
Surprising
Reveals
Seemingly
Similarities
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My childhood hero was David Attenborough. He opened my eyes to the wonder of the natural world. In fact, he's still my hero. I interviewed him at the Science Museum in 2015, and he is such a thoughtful, humble and inspiring person.
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Inspiring
Natural World
Thoughtful
Museum
Opened
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In Luke, shepherds go to find Jesus. In Matthew, an unspecified number of wise men, sometimes portrayed as kings, arrive. Nativity plays usually throw all the elements together, with kings and shepherds beating a path to the stable.
Alice Roberts /
Elements
Luke
Matthew
Nativity
Shepherds
Stable
Arrive
Beating
Portrayed
Wise Men
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The scientific method is about trying to remove our own bias and subjectivity, and be as objective as possible. But then you can put it back into context and you're allowed to be emotional and human about the way you engage with it.
Alice Roberts /
Bias
Method
Remove
Scientific Method
Subjectivity
Allowed
Context
Engage
Objective
Scientific
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Always attempting to tame and subjugate nature is not the solution. But the latest science is helping us to map out a path across this shifting landscape in uncertain times, showing us how to work with natural forces, not against them.
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Attempting
Helping
Landscape
Path
Shifting
Uncertain
Forces
Latest
Map
Solution
Showing
Subjugate
Tame
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I've always loved the seaside and I used to be a fairly keen surfer, but it's a solitary activity so when my husband and I had children, we bought sit-on-top kayaks. Whenever possible, we escape to the coast or explore rivers with them.
Alice Roberts /
Rivers
Solitary
Fairly
Escape
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There should be regulation that prevents all schools, not just state schools, from teaching creationism because it is indoctrination, it is planting ideas into children's heads. We should be teaching children to be much more open-minded.
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Ideas
Indoctrination
Regulation
Heads
Planting
Prevents
Schools
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Later, I found it too hard to give up, and so I've continued eating fish and other seafood, while trying to ensure it's sustainably sourced. This means I'm now one of those vegetarians I used to frown at - one who occasionally eats fish.
Alice Roberts /
Seafood
Eats
Ensure
Frown
Occasionally
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We need to get across the excitement and creativity of science. That it isn't just a list of facts that have already been discovered - but a process, a creative project, that you are generating ideas, testing them and looking for evidence.
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Excitement
Generating
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Pagan Romans started their midwinter celebrations with the feast of Saturnalia on 17 December, ending them with a new year festival, the Kalendae Januariae, at the start of January - both were celebrated with parties and the exchange of gifts.
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New Year
December
January
Pagan
Celebrated
Exchange
Ending
Feast
Festival
Gifts
Parties
Romans
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And when you take something like the changing colour of autumn leaves and start to ask why, you're starting off on an intellectual journey which will take you beyond that moment of visual satisfaction, while robbing nothing from that experience.
Alice Roberts /
Journey
Autumn
Colour
Robbing
Satisfaction
Visual
Beyond
Leaves
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I was extremely lucky as I was in one of the last generations of British students who went to university and had my fees paid, and I had a grant as well. I also earned money from my waitressing and designing and selling my own range of dinosaur cards.
Alice Roberts /
British
Cards
Fees
Generations
Lucky
Paid
Range
Selling
University
Designing
Dinosaur
Earned
Extremely
Grant
Waitressing
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It's tempting to look back into history with rose-tinted glasses. Most people in the Stone Age didn't live anywhere near as long as we're living now. Today we can enjoy a more wide-ranging diet and we have fruit and vegetables available all year round.
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Glasses
Stone Age
Tempting
Vegetables
All Year
Round
Near
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I love prehistory - particularly the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. These were times when our ancestors made a revolutionary change from being hunter-gatherers to being farmers, and when great migrations of people spread languages - and genes - across Europe.
Alice Roberts /
Bronze
Europe
Genes
Migration
Prehistory
Revolutionary
Spread
Ancestors
Languages
Particularly
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Archaeology can be overlooked as a discipline, I think, but it's incredibly important to have this other way of approaching the past - not just through historical documents, but through actual physical remains - objects, buildings and the layout of our towns.
Alice Roberts /
Archaeology
Discipline
Documents
Historical
Important
Layout
Objects
Overlooked
Remains
Towns
Actual
Approaching
Buildings
Through
Incredibly
Physical
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Biological anthropology tends to focus on skeletons because that's what is often left behind in the ground, but I am a whole-body anatomist, I'm a clinical anatomist and that's what I teach, I teach it all, not just the skeleton, the muscles and nerves, blood vessels.
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Anthropology
Muscles
Nerves
Biological
Clinical
Skeleton
Tends
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Easter is an ancient festival of rebirth, but it's also an excellent excuse for eating eggs. I really like eggs, of both the chocolate and chicken variety. But the chocolate ones, you must admit, can sustain only a fleeting interest. A sweet, sugary hit - and then it's gone.
Alice Roberts /
Easter
Ancient
Chocolate
Eating
Eggs
Excellent
Fleeting
Rebirth
Variety
Admit
Hit
Chicken
Festival
Sustain
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We have been talking about public engagement for a decade. For me it is about recognising that the mission of science has to be embedded within our culture - the direction in which science is going has to be determined by all of us, and so we need a dialogue with the public.
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Determined
Embedded
Engagement
Decade
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Our long, flexible lumbar spines are great in many ways - they help us to run efficiently, for instance. But they have their drawbacks. The lumbar vertebrae are under great strain, and as we age, the ligaments that hold the pulpy centres of the intervertebral discs in place dry out.
Alice Roberts /
Drawbacks
Dry
Flexible
Instance
Strain
Efficiently
Great Strain
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It seems that humans have been enjoying the taste and health benefits of blackberries for thousands of years. Gathered blackberries have been found at Neolithic sites, while a preserved iron age bog body, known as Haraldskaer Woman, provides definite evidence of blackberry ingestion.
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Definite
Health Benefits
Iron
Blackberry
Enjoying
Gathered
Preserved
Sites
Thousands Of Years
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While planting woodlands along rivers has been shown to work in small areas, it has been unclear whether it would be effective on a larger scale. But computer modelling indicates that restoring forests on floodplains could slow floodwaters and reduce the height of the flood downstream.
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Flood
Forests
Height
Restoring
Rivers
Unclear
Scale
Downstream
Larger Scale
Planting
Reduce
Shown
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Just as your own existence is unlikely and far from inevitable, the evolution of modern humans as a species depended on a whole string of chance events - some happening in the environments our ancestors inhabited, and some inside their own bodies, including random mutations in their DNA.
Alice Roberts /
Dna
Evolution
Existence
Humans
Including
Inevitable
Species
Unlikely
Ancestors
Bodies
Depended
Environments
Happening
Inhabited
Mutations
String
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Chance is hugely significant in biology. In fact, the presence of apparent randomness in so many aspects of biology - from mutations in DNA to the chance involved in that one sperm reaching that one egg that became you - suggests that randomness is useful, even necessary, in very many cases.
Alice Roberts /
Chance
Biology
Cases
Dna
Involved
Randomness
Reaching
Significant
Apparent
Aspects
Useful
Became
Egg
Fact
Hugely
In Fact
Mutations
Necessary
Presence
Sperm
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I don't think anyone is saying that we should be treating boys and girls exactly the same and that we should try to eliminate all differences. What the psychologists who do this work are saying is we should be aware of it and careful about it, especially if we think it could be limiting choices.
Alice Roberts /
Careful
Differences
Boys And Girls
Eliminate
Exactly The Same
Limiting
Psychologists
Treating
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So I think as a biologist I would like us to focus on this planet and finding solutions to sustaining humanity, to improving people's lives globally, but doing our absolute utmost to preserve as much biodiversity as we can, knowing that we have already been responsible for the loss of thousands of species.
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Biodiversity
Improving
Solutions
Species
Sustaining
Absolute
Globally
Preserve
Utmost
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The colour of a British wood in autumn is predominantly yellow. There are relatively few European trees which have red leaves in the autumn. But there are splashes of crimson or rust-red colours from a few indigenous trees, like the rowan, as well as from introduced species, like the North American red oak.
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Autumn
Colour
Crimson
Indigenous
Species
Yellow
Introduced
Leaves
North American
Oak
Relatively
Trees
Wood
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Autumn is much redder in North America and east Asia than it is in northern Europe, and this can't be explained by temperature differences alone. These areas also have a greater proportion of ancient tree lineages surviving: trees have gone extinct at a higher rate in Europe compared with those other areas.
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Ancient
Asia
Autumn
Differences
East Asia
North America
Proportion
Rate
Surviving
Temperature
Tree
Compared
Explained
Extinct
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The science of being healthy is well-known. It is not esoteric. There are no magic bullets. If you want to live a long life, we've known the answers for more than a hundred years. It's a wide-ranging diet with as much fruit and veg as you can stuff into yourself, and plenty of exercise. It doesn't even matter what kind of exercise.
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Answers
Bullets
Esoteric
Long Life
Hundred Years
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