In science your competitors are your colleagues.
All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.
Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.
That's the nice thing about the field of science - the test of time sorts out the truth.
Japanese was so popular that the thinking was that if you could not master Japanese, you would not be able to become a scientist
in the schools of North Korea
If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.
Everyone in the astronaut program has a degree in a science field. The crew are the ones who do the experiments, help to design some of the experiments that come from other primary researchers. So it becomes very important that you have a science background.
There's a danger of some of the best people saying, 'I don't want a career in science.'
