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" My own day-to-day observations confirm that many Americans can barely make change. At the supermarket where I buy groceries, I've watched more than one encounter at the cash register where both customer and clerk are befuddled at the prospect of double-checking the sums. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The existence of dark matter and dark energy are inferred from observations! They are not theoretical constructs. Though invisible, both reveal their presence through the effects that they exert on motions of celestial bodies and in the case of dark matter - the bending of light as well. "

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

" I find the world with its inequities and injustices to be messy, unfair, and complicated. The cosmos, on the other hand, is orderly and beautiful - this I find terribly alluring and captivating. "

" 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. "

" I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe. "

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

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Unseen

Always

" 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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Responsible

Cousins

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

" Being nimble and ready to change our minds if need be is an attribute that is crucial to live and thrive in a society that is powered by science and technology, both as an individual and as an engaged citizen. "

" 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. "

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

" In addition to a well-funded school system, we need to encourage and exploit innovative approaches for learning outside the classroom. "

" My students may have dexterity with the equations they're required to know, but they lack the capacity to apply their knowledge to real-life problems. This critical shortcoming appears in high school and possibly in elementary grades - long before college. "

" Finding the first seed black holes could help reveal how the relation between black holes and their host galaxies evolved over time. "

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

" 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. "

" Mental discipline and tenacity in the face of obstacles are traits that have greatly helped me in both my personal and professional journey thus far. I am also very optimistic by nature and tend to focus on the positive and remain hopeful when faced with adversity. "

Priyamvada Natarajan

Positive

Nature

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I am a phenomenologist - I work on developing theoretical models that are constrained by observations. "

Priyamvada Natarajan

Work

I Am

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

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

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

" 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. "

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