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" It is my idea that the public needs to be better educated about the nature of scientific inquiry and how the scientific process works. I firmly believe that this is the only effective way forward to combat the widespread distrust in facts and science. "

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" If you know the shape of the lens and the image you get, you can work out the path that light followed between the object and your eye. "

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" The invisible and unseen has always fascinated us humans. "

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" As an astrophysicist, my research work involves mapping dark matter, the elusive substance that accounts for about a quarter of our universe. "

" Data suggest that central black holes might play an important role in adjusting how many stars form in the galaxies they inhabit. For one thing, the energy produced when matter falls into the black hole may heat up the surrounding gas at the center of the galaxy, thus preventing cooling and halting star formation. "

" The early universe was a dusty place, and the UV radiation from the hot, young black holes and stars would get enshrouded by dust, re-radiated, and scattered into red wavelengths like infra-red, causing these objects to remain obscured. "

" Science is evidence-based and provides a continuing understanding of complex natural phenomena. Our understanding is constantly evolving and continually improving. "

" The precise effects of lensing depend on the mass of the lens, the structure of space-time, and the relative distance between us, the lens, and the distant object behind it. It's like a magnifying glass, where the image you get depends on the shape of the lens and how far you hold it from the object you're looking at. "

" I fell in love with the night sky when I first looked through a telescope as a young girl growing up in Delhi. "

" Evidence has been mounting for the key role that black holes play in the process of galaxy formation. But it now appears that they are likely the prima donnas of this space opera. "

" We scientists have an obsession with unification, a grand synthesis. And dark matter is an irritating missing piece. "

" Perhaps more than English or history, STEM subjects require an enormous amount of foundational learning before students can become competent. "

" Everyone acknowledges that there is a political part to tenure, but no one likes to admit it. "

" No one wants to walk across a crowd-sourced bridge. "

" Individuals reporting on their own experience with particular therapies would provide first-hand accounts that could be considered in the improvement of drug design. "

" In an era of ever-increasing globalization, what it takes to become and remain a science superpower has fundamentally changed. "

" We cannot explain the phenomenon of gravitational lensing without general relativity, and this is where MOND spectacularly fails. "

" Progress in science occurs in fits and starts, and paradigm shifts occur when evidence can be marshaled to support a new point of view. "

" We knew from theoretical models that mergers of massive, gas-rich galaxies were more frequent in the past. Now we've found that these mergers are responsible for producing both the nearby obscured quasar population and their distant cousins. "

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" I am obsessed with trying to understand why there is such rampant denialism of science in our country. I find this exuberant irrationalism extremely disturbing. And this is particularly troubling, because I am a professional scientist. "

" The deep fascination with the mysterious, and the impulse to seek and locate ourselves in the cosmic context, seems to be imprinted in our DNA and psyches. "

" Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. This is due to the fact that as time goes on, with the invention of better instruments, more data and better data hone our understanding further. Social, cultural, economic, and political context are relevant to our understanding of how science works. "

" Research in any domain of science today requires specialized training to build up knowledge and clinical competence. To make major breakthroughs, we need people with expertise who are engaged in sustained research over a long period of time - in a word, scientists. "

" The geometry, the content, and the fate of the universe are all intricately linked. If you know two, you can deduce the third. "

" Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing. "

" I am a professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University, where I teach an introductory class in cosmology. I see the deficiencies that first-year students show up with. "

" We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an introduction to the world that sent them and not an epitaph for a civilization that caused its own ruin. "

" We cannot decide on the efficacy of a medical treatment by counting the number of 'Likes' an intervention receives on Facebook; no matter what, professionals will still need to conduct continued clinical trials and evaluate their outcomes carefully. "

" We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one. "

" Research in basic sciences now requires resources that no one country can provide. "

" All the particles that we are made of only account for about four per cent of the cosmic inventory. "