Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Each beginning is the end of a waiting. We are each given exactly one chance to be. Each of us is both impossible and inevitable. "
Hope Jahren
Waiting
Beginning
End
Related Quotes:
" Like all professors, I also do a lot of extra jobs for which I was never trained, such as advising former students as they navigate the wider world. "
Hope Jahren
Like
Never
Professors
" 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. "
Hope Jahren
Fix
Trust
Hands
" 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
Childhood
Art
People
" 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. "
Hope Jahren
Men
Women
Power
" 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. "
Hope Jahren
Nurture
Always
Best
" My life is pretty small. Even as a successful scientist, I'm not a public figure. I like people - I just don't know that many! "
Hope Jahren
Like
Life
Know
" 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?'' "
Hope Jahren
Today
Day
Good
" 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. "
Hope Jahren
Turn
Risk
Safety
" 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
Science
Women
Justice
" 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.' "
Hope Jahren
Look
You
Science
" The live oak can grow sturdily on the hottest hills of central California, contrasting dark green against the golden grass. "
Hope Jahren
Oak
California
Dark
" 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. "
Hope Jahren
Result
Research
Work
" In our tiny town, my father wasn't a scientist - he was the scientist, and being a scientist wasn't his job: it was his identity. "
Hope Jahren
Tiny
Father
He
" 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
Me
Farm
Forest
" 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. "
Hope Jahren
Light
Cool
World
" 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
Say
Teeth
You
" For a tree, to endure four months of daylight is like you or I going without sleep for four months. "
Hope Jahren
Tree
You
Endure
" My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out what I believe. "
Hope Jahren
I Believe
Church
Believe
" I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists. "
Hope Jahren
Spend
Other
Writing
" 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
Men
Women
Believe
" The world breaks a little bit every time we cut down a tree. It's so much easier to cut one down than to grow one. And so it's worth interrogating every time we do it. "
Hope Jahren
Time
Tree
World
" I always knew how privileged I was to think for a living. "
Hope Jahren
Always
Think
Living
" 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. "
Hope Jahren
Me
Fix
Girl
" I'm interested in how the bare bones of the planet, things that aren't alive, are transformed into things that are alive. "
Hope Jahren
Things
Alive
Bones
" 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
Sleep
Down
Family
" A seed knows how to wait... A seed is alive while it waits. "
Hope Jahren
How
Knows
Seed
" I grew up in my father's laboratory and played beneath the chemical benches until I was tall enough to play on them. "
Hope Jahren
Laboratory
Father
Play
" I am a scientist who studies plants. I like plants. I think about plants almost every hour of the day, and several hours of the night as well. "
Hope Jahren
Think
Night
Day
" My father was a scientist, and I grew up in his laboratory. Maybe I am like him, but he is not like me. "
Hope Jahren
Like
Laboratory
I Am
" I love the quiet forest that stands between my lab and my home. "
Hope Jahren
Home
Forest
Lab