the "for you" page emoji being a crystal ball is very appropriate considering how it consistently fails to show me content relevant or accurate to my interests and torments me with horrifying visions instead
mad scientists should understand that your assistant does not solely exist to serve you. you serve each other. your skill sets and quirks complement the other’s. you have difficulty with a couple of calculations often required of your work, so your assistant jots them out themselves. your assistant’s hands have a tendency to shake, so you handle the more delicate aspects of certain experiments. you both take over when the other has tired from hauling corpses or quelling upset specimens. you bring each other food and drink in the wee hours of the morning, when you have been too focused on your research to even begin to think of anything else. your assistant throws a blanket over your shoulders when you pass out on the lab bench, so you gently carry them off to bed the next time you see that they have done the same. you are the same, you are equal. you have so much to discover together.
Morgan Nikola-Wren
the hardest thing about being an LGBT person in the chemical or life sciences is refraining from making a shitty joke every time terminology contains "trans" "cis" "hetero" or "homo"
am I ever going to have a chemistry lab in person? let me touch the fucking chemicals
do you ever sabotage your own free time? like wtf is that about? i want to play this game or read or do something specific but instead i will just stare out the window or scroll mindlessly???
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less".
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained".
"I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries".
"If I had not been taught chemical analysis by prof. Milicer and dr. Kossakowski in Warsaw, I would not have isolated radium".
"I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale".
"Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit".
"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful".
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy".
ladies we need to start frantically and obsessively reading books in less than 24 hours again..remember how happy we were
I did not have “tumblr book club forms and reads a classic horror novel delivered via email; immediately begins to roast and fall in love with protagonist” on my 2022 bingo card, but I have to say I am enjoying myself immensely
the feminine urge to hold a gun
it’s not ‘talking to myself’ it’s called a soliloquy you fuck