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 way getting grants. That system of external rewards in science has always mystified me. It’s fickle. And I also don’t think it was constructed with people like me in mind. Hope Jahren Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists. Hope Jahren Read Quote
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.’ Hope Jahren Read Quote
I’m a scientist – a geobiologist who’s been studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil for over twenty years. One day, I realized that I wanted, needed, to tell people – and not just other scientists – about my life in science. Hope Jahren Read Quote
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. Hope Jahren Read Quote
The turkey oak can grow practically submerged within the wetlands of Mississippi, its leaves soft as a newborn’s skin. Hope Jahren Read Quote
Corn occupies a really special role in what I’ve been calling American agro-economics. Hope Jahren Read Quote
