American - Scientist | September 27, 1969 -
I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists.
Hope Jahren
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I grew up in a small town.
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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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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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America may say that it values science, but it sure as hell doesn't want to pay for it.
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Ask a science professor what she worries about. It won't take long. She'll look you in the eye and say one word: 'Money.'
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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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In New England, the pin oak thrives, its leaves tipping to a thorny point in a good-natured impression of its evergreen neighbor, the holly bush.
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The turkey oak can grow practically submerged within the wetlands of Mississippi, its leaves soft as a newborn's skin.
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The live oak can grow sturdily on the hottest hills of central California, contrasting dark green against the golden grass.
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Women scientists' hands are like every other woman's hands.
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We have to be very careful about acknowledging that the Internet is very good at combatting isolation, but it's not very good at delivering justice.
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