Patricia Fara

thumb|Patricia Fara Patricia Fara is a college lecturer in the history of science at Clare College, Cambridge. Quotes I learned very rapidly that I should never, ever reveal to anybody that I had a degree in physics from Oxford, because nobody—neither men nor women—would talk to me, because they’d regard me as completely abnormal. Science is absolutely imbued with political and commercial and personal considerations. Scientists are just people. Just because you produce a great scientific theory doesn’t mean you’re not a corrupt human being. People like Newton and Schrödinger don’t belong up on a pedestal. There’s a phrase by the historian E.P. Thompson—“the condescension of posterity”—where it's very easy to think that we’re absolutely perfect today. But what are people going to think in 100 years’ time of the way we live? After I left university, what I discovered was that I should never ever admit that I had a degree in physics from Oxford because if I was at a nightclub or a party or something, there would soon be this big empty space all around me. We’ve got to get away from this idea that work is what really matters because it’s life that matters and how happy you are. That’s far more important than what work you manage to do. 2021https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/patricia-fara/ About Fara Her writing often emphasizes the contributions of translators, teachers, and technicians—previously unrecognized people whose work was crucial to the global development of science.https://www.aps.org/archives/publications/apsnews/202206/fara.cfm External links Category:1948 births Category:Living people