Jane Goodall
“I wanted to talk to the animals like Dr. Doolittle.”[1]
Florence Nightgale
“Women have no sympathy … and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.”[2]
Stephen Hawking
“God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.”[3]
[1] About.com: Women's History, "Jane Goodall Quotes," About.com, http://womenshistory.about.com/od/quotes/a/jane_goodall.htm.
[2] Letter, 13 December 1861. Letter to John Mill, 12 September 1860, pub. in Ever Years, Florence Nightgale, selected letters, chp. 3 Rejecting argument that women had been more sympathetic to her work than men.
[3] Nature, vol. 257 (1957).
Monday, April 14, 2008
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