Quotes by Hope Jahren - Page 2

Women live in a world where we are forced to consider our safety at every turn. We minimize risk while we maximize activity. It's this constant balancing act that we do.
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Activity
Constant
Safety
Balancing
Forced
Maximize
Minimize
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My experiences have also convinced me that sexual harassment is very rarely publicly punished after it is reported, and then only after a pattern of relatively egregious offenses.
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Convinced
Harassment
Experiences
Sexual
Relatively
Pattern
Publicly
Punished
Rarely
Reported
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People love the ocean. People are always asking me why I don't study the ocean, because, after all, I live in Hawaii. I tell them that it's because the ocean is a lonely, empty place.
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Ocean
Asking
Empty
Hawaii
Lonely
Study
Love Always Me
Love Me People
Why
After
Place
Tell
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The absence of women within STEM programs is not only progressive, it is persistent - despite more than 20 years of programs intended to encourage the participation of girls and women.
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Absence
Despite
Participation
Persistent
Progressive
Stem
Women More Only
Intended
Programs
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While both plants and animals awaken via distinct changes in metabolic functioning, most plants prefer to err on the side of caution, waiting for hints of full-on summer before they bloom.
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Caution
Hints
Plants And Animals
Awaken
Bloom
Distinct
Err
Full-On
Plants
Via
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I can explain to you in detail just how a tree can be made into paper. But I've always wondered - and hoped - that someday, someone would help me discover how paper can be made back into a tree.
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Paper
Someday
Tree
Detail
Discover
Explain
Me Help Always
Hoped
Wondered
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We must feed, shelter, and nurture one another as our first priority, and to do so, we must avail ourselves of our best technologies, which have always included some type of genetic modification.
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Modification
Nurture
Shelter
Type
Avail
Feed
Genetic
Included
Technologies
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Women study things in order to figure out how they're connected to other things. I don't know if it's controversial to say that, but that's what I've seen from doing science for a couple of decades.
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Controversial
Decades
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I think we get used to not seeing the green things around us. I think they become the backdrop of our lives. And I think you actively have to ask somebody to request that they put that in the foreground.
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Backdrop
Foreground
Request
Actively
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My earliest memories are being in the lab, and the way the cement felt and the way it smelled, and the way the countertops looked and it just being this wonderful, warm, happy place where it was just full of toys.
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Cement
Memories
Toys
Warm
Earliest
Earliest Memories
Lab
Looked
Smelled
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There is nothing in the world more perfect than a slide rule. Its burnished aluminum feels cool against your lips, and if you hold it level to the light you can see God's most perfect right angle in each of its corners.
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Angle
Corners
Feels
Lips
Hold
Rule
Slide
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I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just not immune to that - which actually isn't a very controversial stance if you think about it.
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Controversial
Immune
Stance
Fundamental
Sexes
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It's very important to put children in an environment where they can take things apart; where they can break things and then learn to fix them; where they can trust their hands and know their capacity to manipulate objects.
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Manipulate
Objects
Fix
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I'm a scientist - a geobiologist who's been studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil for over twenty years. One day, I realized that I wanted, needed, to tell people - and not just other scientists - about my life in science.
Hope Jahren /
Needed
One Day
Scientist
Seeds
Soil
Flowers
Realized
Studying
Trees
Twenty
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The type of science that I do is sometimes known as 'curiosity-driven research.' This means that my work will never result in a marketable product, a useful machine, a prescribable pill, a formidable weapon, or any direct gain.
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Formidable
Gain
Weapon
Pill
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One cannot rule out a blizzard in Minnesota after Labor Day, and so when I travel for Thanksgiving or any time in the fall, I am careful to fly into Des Moines instead of Minneapolis and then drive the 200 miles north to my hometown.
Hope Jahren /
Thanksgiving
Travel
Blizzard
Careful
Des Moines
Hometown
Labor
Labor Day
Miles
Minneapolis
Drive
Fly
North
Rule
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I grew up in a time when there were very few women in the physical sciences. And people started to ask me, 'How did you decide to become a scientist?' And I couldn't really answer. I always knew I'd grow up to have a lab because my dad had one.
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Few Women
Lab
Physical Sciences
Sciences
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Science is so incremental and so full of setbacks and small steps forward. In order to really thrive in this business, you have to be able to glean as much joy from the failure days and from the small increments as you do from the breakthroughs.
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Business
Failure
Science
Able
Joy
Order
Steps
Thrive
Breakthroughs
Days
Full
Forward
Small
Increment
Setbacks
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During the mid-1990s, I collected thousands of hackberry fruits from trees all across the Midwest. I chemically analyzed each seed in order to formulate an equation relating the hackberry's mineral makeup to the summer temperature under which it grew.
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Temperature
Analyzed
Collected
Equation
Formulate
Fruits
Mineral
Relating
Seed
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I think being a scientist is a position of respect and power and access, and it's a privileged position in society. And I think there are fundamental mechanisms that keep men and women from achieving the same level of power and access and privilege in society.
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Respect
Women
Society
Access
Men And Women
Position
Privilege
Scientist
Men Women Respect
Men Women Power
Achieving
Same
Fundamental
Mechanisms
Same Level
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The world is a fickle place, and it's not fair. But if you're getting most of your rewards from you, then you can use that as a kind of compass, and you can be secure in the fact that you're working for the right reason, and you're going in the right direction.
Hope Jahren /
Compass
Fickle
Not Fair
Reason
Rewards
Right Direction
Secure
Use
Most
Then
Direction
Getting
Working
Fact
Fair
Place
Right
Right Reason
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I grew up playing with kids who were the kids of people my parents grew up playing with, and they know me like nobody else. I thought everybody was that way when I was growing up, and then I left to go to college, and I realised that the world is full of strangers.
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Realised
World Me Parents
Nobody Else
Strangers
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No matter how much funding I get, I'm always thinking, 'This is temporary. This is fragile. It could all end tomorrow, and how am I going to make today worth it? If this is my last day in the lab, what can I do so that I can walk out of here saying, 'That was a good day?''
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Fragile
Funding
Good Day
Temporary
Tomorrow
Worth It
Walk
How Much
Lab
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Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is either dispersed or goes nowhere. One pollen grain either enters a stigma or it falls upon stony ground. An ovum is either fertilized or the whole project stalls out.
Hope Jahren /
Bud
Grain
Offers
Stem
Nowhere
Flowers
Decisive
Either
Falls
Project
Goes
Plants
Produces
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In my Scandinavian-American family, we were conditioned never to sit, at least not comfortably. I was endlessly going back to work. We longed for the fleeting respite of being useful and regarded sleep as a reward for exhaustion, always to be deferred until after the sun goes down.
Hope Jahren /
Exhaustion
Fleeting
Family Work Always
Useful
Comfortably
Conditioned
Deferred
Endlessly
Regarded
Reward
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Your bones are not just made of the last meal you had, but the meals that you've had across many years. By looking at the composition of those teeth, researchers can say that something was a large component of the diet. This tells us a lot about how hominins lived and what they ate.
Hope Jahren /
Diet
Bones
Researchers
Teeth
Across
Ate
Component
Large
Meal
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I feel like I'm the same scientist I was back when I couldn't get a grant. Now I'm that same person thinking that same way getting grants. That system of external rewards in science has always mystified me. It's fickle. And I also don't think it was constructed with people like me in mind.
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Fickle
Rewards
Science Thinking Always
External
Constructed
Grant
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I was a promising graduate student. I landed a position as a professor before I even started to write my dissertation. While I prepared to start my new job, I decided that I would begin by studying the brine that bleeds sideways within the rocks that underlie the inner Aegean region of Turkey.
Hope Jahren /
Decided
Dissertation
New Job
Position
Prepared
Rocks
Sideways
Within
Begin
Student
Landed
Graduate
Graduate Student
Inner
Professor
Promising
Region
Start
Turkey
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There is a fundamental and culturally learned power imbalance between men and women, and it follows us into the workplace. The violence born of this imbalance follows us also. We would like to believe that it stops short of following us into the laboratory and into the field - but it does not.
Hope Jahren /
Following
Imbalance
Laboratory
Men And Women
Workplace
Short
Power Women Men
Fundamental
Women Power Men
Learned
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The deadnettle is the Punxsutawney Phil of the plant world: short of stature but stout of heart. At the first hint of winter's wane, its stem rises from the ground, and a green, grasping hand of sepals unclenches to divulge two silky-white petals, one of which unfurls straight up toward the sky.
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Grasping
Petals
Plant
Sky
Stature
Winter
Hint
Rises
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I am a scientist. To be specific, I am a woman scientist. This, I have been told and have come to believe, is a good thing. In fact, it is such a good thing that America needs more of us. Everyone seems to be very sure of this. The thing that no one is sure about, however, is how to make it happen.
Hope Jahren /
America
Make It Happen
Needs
Scientist
Seems
Good Believe I Am
Sure
Fact
Good Thing
Happen
However
In Fact
Specific
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I think, as you move to the upper ranks of science - ranks being positions of influence and access - you see fewer female faces. And I think the basic reason is the same reason that you don't see a lot of female faces in Congress or on the Supreme Court or on the directing board of Fortune 500 companies.
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Faces
Fewer
Supreme
Supreme Court
Board
Directing
Positions
Ranks
Upper
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The evasion of justice within academia is all the more infuriating because the course of sexual harassment is so predictable. Since I started writing about women and science, my female colleagues have been moved to share their stories with me; my inbox is an inadvertent clearinghouse for unsolicited love notes.
Hope Jahren /
Academia
Colleagues
Evasion
Harassment
Infuriating
Notes
Predictable
Sexual
Unsolicited
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I think it's very common that scientists or technical people have an artistic side. Sometimes they are very accomplished musicians. Sometimes they have very fine tastes according to art or design. And often, they've spent a big chunk of their childhood or they're growing-up years trying to get in very good at those activities.
Hope Jahren /
Accomplished
Art Good Design
Activities
Chunk
Tastes
Scientists
Technical
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You can't drive through Iowa and not think about farming: No less than 85 percent of the land in the state is devoted to farms, many of them more than 1,000 acres. This is the place where seeds are sown. It's where farmers grow the corn that will be fed to pigs as grain or fed to you as syrup or fermented to ethanol for your gas tank.
Hope Jahren /
Acres
Corn
Devoted
Ethanol
Farmers
Gas
Grain
Iowa
Pigs
Seeds
Syrup
Fed
Sown
Tank
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You can pick wild strawberries with your eyes closed, locating them by smell, for they are two parts perfume to one part taste. An hour of searching might yield a handful if you're lucky. Wild strawberries can't be encouraged, nor can they be discouraged: They come to you unbidden and unearned. They appear, or do not, by the grace of the sun.
Hope Jahren /
Discouraged
Grace
Handful
Lucky
Might
Perfume
Smell
Strawberries
Sun
Taste
Two
Yield
Come
Appear
Them
Wild
Closed
Part
Encouraged
Eyes
Hour
Nor
Parts
Pick
Searching
Unearned
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One thing that was very important to me was that I felt comfortable in the lab from being very, very small. I knew that that's where I belonged, and I could fix things and move things. And no matter how many classrooms I went into where I was the only girl in the physics class or whatever, I never questioned the fact that I didn't belong there.
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Physics
Belong
Classrooms
Lab
Questioned
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When I was 23, my Norwegian relatives taught me how to sit still. During the long sunlit evenings in the summer of 1992, my cousins would lead me across the farm to the edge of the forest, each of us lugging a folding chair. There, in a scraggly bramble of wild blueberries, we would set them down a few yards apart, each in our own little patch.
Hope Jahren /
Folding
Summer
Taught
Yards
Across
Apart
Wild
Chair
Cousins
Set
Edge
Evenings
Farm
Few
Forest
Lead
Norwegian
Patch
Relatives
Sit
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