I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam – I break in order to reveal.
Stephen Jay Gould
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A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.
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I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einsteins brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
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