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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

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I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists.

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I grew up in a small town.

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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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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.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: September 27th, 1969

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