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“Initiatives such as RUFORUM’s education funding support for women in higher education have also boosted the number of women with scientific skills and qualifications.”
Mary Okwakol (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women continue to inspire me to persist with my scientific endeavors. While some progress has been made, much more remains to be done to ensure a non-sexist and just society.”
Quarraisha Abdool Karim (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How did you become involved in scientific research?”
Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that women should be sponsored to participate in STEM workshops, conferences, seminars and exhibitions. Gender mainstreaming scientific activities must be encouraged. Okeke speaking on the marginalisation of women in STEM”
Francisca Nneka Okeke (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My average day has evolved over the years as I have graduated from being a junior to a more senior researcher. Earlier on, I’d spend a lot of time in the laboratory generating data and less time in the office reading scientific literature, analysing data and writing up my work.”
Faith Osier (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have no worries at all. I train based on scientific principles. My taekwondo coach is a professional in the sports field which is an added advantage to me. During training I am taught about conditioning, anatomy, and injuries and their management, so I understand the human body and hence am very cautious while training by doing the right exercise.”
Faith Ogallo (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Scientific training helps me improve on my physical ability, fitness components, flexibility, reaction time, strength, power, speed, balance and agility.”
Faith Ogallo (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Symmetry, of course, was the scientific formula of beauty.”
Wesley Chu (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The next decade is likely to be a period of growing instability... which could undermine... scientific progress...”
Peter Turchin (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Catechism is a safe and authentic reference text for the teaching of Catholic Doctrine. One can know what the Church professes and celebrates, lives and prays in its daily life. For this reason, I decided to translate it into Umbundu. It was very difficult because it concerned philosophical, theological, scientific and bioethical terms.”
Francisco Viti (1933–2023) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ANGOLA: The Catechism of the Catholic Church now translated into Umbundu (14 December 2019) Vatican News
“To agnostics, humanists, atheists, and freethinkers... you will find nothing here that you cannot wholeheartedly embrace as... rationally sound, mainstream scientific understanding of the Universe. ...[T]he vision of "evolutionary spirituality" presented here will benefit you and your loved ones without your needing to believe in anything otherworldly.”
Michael Dowd (1958–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Scientific research is the art of asking the right question in the right way.”
Laura Huxley (1911–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to inspire girls in STEM to believe that it is possible to pursue a fulfilling career in any scientific discipline.”
Mavis Owureku-Asare first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Masahudu Ankiilu, Linking Research to Industry Is Never an Easy Task, But Dr Mavis Owureku-Asare Is Showing the Way, African Eye Report, November 20, 2020.
“When we say there’s a scientific consensus that human-produced greenhouse gases are causing climate change, what does that mean? What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and what do they do?”
Lisa Alexander (earth scientist) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Climate explained: how the IPCC reaches scientific consensus on climate change. June 29, 2021 6.00am SAST, THE CONVERSATION, Retrieved: November 14, 2023
“Our contemporary problem is that human actions since the Industrial Revolution have been changing the composition of the atmosphere the scientific community has been concerned for several decades. By the 1950s it was suggested that the rate of burning fuels such as coal could be changing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.”
Ann Henderson-Sellers (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The national finalists are an extraordinary group of people whose impact ranges from medical and scientific endeavours to volunteering, human rights advocacy, education, sustainability action and more,”
Jessica Melbourne-Thomas (born 1950) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meet marine, Antarctic and climate scientist Dr Jess Melbourne-Thomas, and other Australian of the Year nominees, Chrissie Goldrick. January 24, 2020, Australian Geographic. Retrieved: November 21, 2023.
“I am optimistic, I think that we will discover ways of using energy that do not cause global warming. The problem is that the question has become more political than scientific.”
Rosaly Lopes (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have scholarship and scientific proof that climate change exists, so what is it going to take for people to understand and participate?”
Cecilia Vicuña (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being part of a team that finds an HIV Vaccine will be my greatest scientific accomplishment.”
Glenda Gray (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It goes without saying, therefore, that higher education contributes significantly to the political, scientific, technological, economic, social and human development of any country”
Olugbemiro Jegede wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the universe were to be conceived as a big clock and every movement in it as mechanically measurable and predictable, then the high goal of scientific-technical thinking would be the comprehension of this central mechanism. And the application of that knowledge would mean the complete mechanization of man.”
Friedrich Georg Jünger (1898–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Obviously, the discovery of ferments, hormones, and vitamins is not only a scientific but also a technical advance. [...] This whole pharmaceutical arsenal is the product of technical specialists who think of the human body as a machine.”
Friedrich Georg Jünger (1898–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our common destiny, as Africans, is defined by peace, security, development and prosperity; free from poverty, disease, underdevelopment and conflicts. We want a continent whose citizens occupy a pride of place among the people of the world. We want a continent that has reclaimed its pre-eminence as a centre of technological innovation, scientific excellence and cultural advancement.”
Sam Nujoma (1929–2025) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at 86th Birthday Celebrations" (2015)
“Long before it became a scientific aspiration to estimate the age of the earth, many elaborate systems of the world chronology had been devised by the sages of antiquity. The most remarkable of these occult time-scales is that of the ancient Hindus.”
Arthur Holmes (1890–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in Iyengar, T R R Hinduism and Scientific Quest D K PrintWorld P Ltd. New Delhi 1997p. 20 as quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her cultu…
“Long before it became a scientific aspiration to estimate the age of the earth, many elaborate systems of the world chronology had been devised by the sages of antiquity. The most remarkable of these occult time-scales is that of the ancient Hindus, whose astonishing concept of the Earth's duration has been traced back to Manusmriti, a sacred book.”
Arthur Holmes (1890–1965) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Arthur Holmes, The Age of Earth (1913)
“As Borges said, everything that was ever said in the world is a great story. History, philosophy, cookbooks, religions, scientific formulas, tango, novels, boleros, popular songs—all are stories about some part of the universe.”
Angélica Gorodischer (1928–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to `normalize’ formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality.”
Homi K. Bhabha (born 1949) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture . (based on this sentence and work, in 1998, the journal Philosophy and Literature awarded Bhabha the second prize in its Bad Writing Competition) quoted from Malhotra, R. & Viswa…
“One can tear off the hair of one’s head looking for some scientific system in Bose’s politics. He is happy without it. Gandhi relies on his ‘inner’ voice—Bose goes by intuition. We get behind Messiahs who are prepared to lead provided we follow them in their blindness. Such is the debacle to which bourgeois leadership, whether Right or Left, is reduced.”
Puran Chand Joshi (1907–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am stubbornly optimistic and that helps me take on challenges of all sizes. During my life, I have witnessed breathtaking scientific discoveries and situations where single individuals have driven positive change. I am also a big believer in the power of teams and the ability of small groups of committed people to achieve great things.”
Kirk Johnson (scientist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lastly, what is crucial is the proliferation of hybrids, or geographies and geographers of the third kind: those that cut across the divides between the social-cultural and the spatial-analytical, the qualitative and the quantitative, the critical and the technical, and the social-scientific and the arts-and-humanities. It is a future not of ‘‘either/or’’ but of ‘‘both-and.’’”
Mei-Po Kwan (born 1962) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Conclusion from Kwan's 2004 publication in Volume 94, issue 4 of the "Annals of the Association of American Geographers" Beyond Difference: From Canonical Geography to Hybrid Geographies
“Global economic growth will soon clash with physical barriers. It is physically impossible to fulfil the ideal of progressivism: the spread of techno-scientific consumer culture to ten billion people. When this dream has faded, another will emerge.”
Guillaume Faye (1949–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Incidentally, why is it that drug abuse is always described as an 'experiment', as if some important scientific enterprise were at stake instead of hedonistic self-indulgence?”
Roger Kimball (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We no longer exercise our critical faculties as soon as we like the thesis put forward. The role of a scientific council is to act as a lighthouse and beacon, to enlighten the political authorities, who must not make decisions without taking account of what the scientists say, i.e. not do what Donald Trump does.”
Étienne Klein (born 1958) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the interview of Nicolas Demorand e Léa Salamé, Etienne Klein : "Le pouvoir politique, ça n'est pas de la médecine appliquée", radiofrance.fr (July 2, 2020)
“And so a gap is definitely apparent: there is a lack of a scientific history of the term “Aryan” that would illuminate the entire breadth of meaning that the term has been given since its inception, and it is the classical Indologists familiar with the field of research who are in demand here.”
Maria Schetelich (born 1938) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Schetelich, M. (2002). Bild, Abbild, Mythos-die Arier in den Arbeiten deutscher Indologen. " Arier" und" Draviden", 40-56. p. 43
“In Towards a Changing Culture, he argues most clearly that a progressive secular culture should be built through coordination among state institutions, an overall strategy for cultural and economic development, faith in scientific development, freedom of choice, and a modern secular state”
Taha Hussein (1889–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...The current scientific consensus is that Arid’s desertification and the extinction of most of its lifeforms were likely due to a rare and destructive shift in its solar orbit, which triggered a series of dual solar hyper-flares.”
Mazi Nwonwu wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pritchard senior died of some unpronounceable scientific term signifying internal haemorrhage of irascibility and malevolence.”
Joseph Furphy (1843–1912) first seen 1905 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Buln-Buln and the Brolga (wr. from 1905; pub. 1946)
“... the handling of the first public announcement of the program in 1958 by the popular press, which fell to the task with all the exuberance and sense of discretion of a pack of happy bloodhounds. Such headlines as "Frankenstein Monster Designed by Navy: Robot That Thinks" (Tulsa, Oklahoma Times) were hardly designed to inspire scientific confidence.”
Frank Rosenblatt (1928–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some take the position that description is non-scientific. This position cannot stand.”
William Bunge (1928–2013) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Bunge's 1962 book "Theoretical Geography
“This, now, is the judgement of our scientific age—the third reaction of man upon the universe! This universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.”
John Haynes Holmes (1879–1964) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sensible Man's View of Religion (1932)
“Egyptian people are much more successful than Israelis with doing scientific research and using their intelligences, however, we are not as lucky as Israelis in terms of financial circumstances.”
Nadia Zakhary (born 2000) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To take advantage of scientific research in order to safeguard health and the environment in the slums, in addition to using sociological research to promote principles and ethics.”
Nadia Zakhary (born 2000) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That the initiative will address garbage, including the management of solid waste and how to protect humans, animals and the surrounding environment. It will also provide job opportunities for youths, and will coordinate with the Ministry of Scientific Research to develop ideas.”
Nadia Zakhary (born 2000) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The theme was selected by the Arab Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ALESCO).”
Nadia Labidi (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There has been no attempt made in this series to be inspirational. War has not been painted as a delightful or glorious experience, but simply and straightforwardly as the cold, grim, scientific business that it is.”
Edmund H. North (1911–1990) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the Fighting Men series of films (September 1942). "The Secondary or Psychological Phase of Training Films", Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (February 1944), p. 120; cited in Thomas Doherty, Proj…
“Education is fundamental to development." To promote gender equality and empower women in Angola, the government has implemented various programs, including training initiatives and support for scientific research, all led by skilled academics.”
Esperança da Costa (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do take a relatively scientific approach to politics.”
Ethel D. Allen (1929–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm trying to find a way for people to connect and experience how onsens have developed here in Japan, even if they don't have scientific knowledge about it, while also understanding the value they offer.”
Tophace Kaahwa (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Scientific knowledge and it’s application through technological innovations are the main drivers of global economic growth and transformation”
Caroline Amali Okao (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is outrageous that, to this day, Algeria does not have a council of experts, appointed for their international scientific expertise, at a high level within the State, to assess any projects related to archaeological research, monument conservation-restoration, or museum management.”
Nacéra Benseddik (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source