Great scientists start new fields of science by making leaps in the dark. Nature decides which of the leaps is right and which is wrong.
You need role models who fall down and pick themselves up. You need role models who show how even though you can't do everything, you can do some things.
Karen Uhlenbeck in Karen Uhlenbeck on Being the First Woman to Receive the Abel Prize
If prevailing wisdom at the time was correct, these photons should never have arrived at our telescopes on Earth. . . . Why was the universe essentially transparent?
Juna Kollmeier in Cosmic Calorimetry
In the realm of politics, the value of freedom is collective and enabling. It makes it possible for men and women to join together and claim equal standing. Take political freedom away and equality becomes a lost project.
Michael Walzer on Freedom and Equality
