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Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they can give people. ”
Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I'd suggest we leave, as a dossier in our defence, the collected letters to agony aunts and uncles down the generations. It would certainly prove that we weren't all bad! ”
I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to create them. And so I just wanted to be a writer from a very young age. And I think that the lies were just a natural side effect of me wanting to tell stories and write them down. ”
One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ”
I write the story as it comes to me - YA is my natural voice, not a conscious choice. ”
It is very natural for me to say thank you to the goods that support us. ”
I definitely think men prefer women more undone and natural than butch and masculine. They prefer a fresher, sexier, more feminine look. ”
If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity. ”
In 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Becquerel, my husband and me for the discovery of radioactivity and new radioactive elements. ”
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. ”