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Patricia Fara Quotes

born 1948

Patricia Fara is a college lecturer in the history of science at Clare College, Cambridge.

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Even though Mendeleev always denied that electrons exist, they later turned out to be vital for ordering the elements in his table.

Science A Four Thousand Year History (2009)

We’ve got to get away from this idea that work is what really matters because it’s life that matters and how happy you are. That’s far more important than what work you manage to do.

Science is absolutely imbued with political and commercial and personal considerations. Scientists are just people.

Christians believed in a teleological cosmos, one created by an omniscient God, a Grand Designer, for a specific purpose. This comforting view was threatened by the new statistical methods in physics, and also by Darwin's theory of evolution, which assumes that chance may intervene between generations to introduce new characteristics.

Science A Four Thousand Year History (2009)

I learned very rapidly that I should never, ever reveal to anybody that I had a degree in physics from Oxford, because nobody—neither men nor women—would talk to me, because they’d regard me as completely abnormal.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Patricia Fara (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.