I feel like I'm the same scientist I was back when I couldn't get a grant. Now I'm that same person thinking… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“People will tell you that you have to know math to be a scientist, or physics or chemistry. They’re wrong. That’s like… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
My life is pretty small. Even as a successful scientist, I'm not a public figure. I like people - I just don't… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“I started out studying literature, but soon discovered that science was where I actually belonged. The contrast made it all the clearer:… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
I'm a scientist - a geobiologist who's been studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil for over twenty years. One day, I realized… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Your bones are not just made of the last meal you had, but the meals that you've had across many years. By… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
I think it's very common that scientists or technical people have an artistic side. Sometimes they are very accomplished musicians. Sometimes they… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
My father was a scientist, and I grew up in his laboratory. Maybe I am like him, but he is not like… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
I am not the only scientist to be struck by the power and meaning of Lamium album in bloom. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“The very attributes that rendered me a nuisance to all of my previous teachers—my inability to let things go coupled with my… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Ask a science professor what she worries about. It won't take long. She'll look you in the eye and say one word:… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
The type of science that I do is sometimes known as 'curiosity-driven research.' This means that my work will never result in… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Science is performed by people, and it's subject to all the various foibles that plague the rest of our social dynamics. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
A true scientist doesn't perform prescribed experiments; she develops her own and thus generates wholly new knowledge. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
I think, as you move to the upper ranks of science - ranks being positions of influence and access - you see… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
America may say that it values science, but it sure as hell doesn't want to pay for it. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
I think being a scientist is a position of respect and power and access, and it's a privileged position in society. And… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
In our tiny town, my father wasn't a scientist - he was the scientist, and being a scientist wasn't his job: it… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
I am a scientist who studies plants. I like plants. I think about plants almost every hour of the day, and several… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“No writer in the world agonizes over words the way a scientist does. Terminology is everything: we identify something by its established… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Women study things in order to figure out how they're connected to other things. I don't know if it's controversial to say… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
I grew up in a time when there were very few women in the physical sciences. And people started to ask me,… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“You and I are going to work our asses off, teach them shit over and over, risk our fucking lives for them, and they… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Men and women study things differently, and it's not because of our chromosomes. It's a product of our cultural conditioning. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
One thing that was very important to me was that I felt comfortable in the lab from being very, very small. I knew that… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
If every seed turned into a plant, we'd be living in a very different world. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
The live oak can grow sturdily on the hottest hills of central California, contrasting dark green against the golden grass. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
I grew up playing with kids who were the kids of people my parents grew up playing with, and they know me like nobody… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
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… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
For a tree, to endure four months of daylight is like you or I going without sleep for four months. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm the same scientist I was back when I couldn't get a grant. Now I'm that same person thinking that same… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is either dispersed… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Even a very little girl can wield a slide rule, the cursor serving as a haft. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
