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To do science today is to experience a dimension unique in contemporary working lives; the work promises something incomparable: the sense of living both personally and historically. That is why science now draws to

To do science today is to experience a dimension unique in contemporary working lives; the work promises something incomparable: the sense of living both personally and historically. That is why science now draws to itself all kinds of people - charlatans, mediocrities, geniuses - everyone who wants to touch the flame, feel alive to the time.

Vivian Gornick
Science, Unique, Flames
Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.16, The Feminist Press at CUNY

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

Vivian Gornick
Art, Science, Political
Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.53, The Feminist Press at CUNY

Whatever a scientist is doing - reading, cooking, talking, playing - science thoughts are always there at the edge of the mind. They are the way the world is taken in; all that is seen is filtered through an everpresent scientific musing.

Vivian Gornick
Taken, Reading, Science
Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.29, The Feminist Press at CUNY

a scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the nature of physical or imaginative life, experiences repeated relief and excitement when the insight comes, and is endlessly attracted to working out the idea.

Vivian Gornick
Science, Ideas, Work Out
Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.30, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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