American - Scientist | September 27, 1969 -
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
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A tree's wood is also its memoir.
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Every acorn on the ground is just as alive as the three-hundred-year-old oak tree that towers over it.
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I love rocks with the unconditional love that you lavish upon a newborn baby.
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A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.
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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.
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If every seed turned into a plant, we'd be living in a very different world.
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A true scientist doesn't perform prescribed experiments; she develops her own and thus generates wholly new knowledge.
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I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it's not just about using our brains.
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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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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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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.
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