One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.

At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.

Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The glass has defects in it, so the image is blurred from that.

Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

As science becomes more specialized, it becomes harder for scientists to check each other, which makes it easier to get away with fraud.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.