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I have great faith in lasers, but no one's putting one near my eye.
- Donna Strickland
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Obviously, over the history of certainly the last 300 years, it was that men went out and worked, and women stayed home. Yes okay, that's the way it was. But certainly it isn't that women weren't able to do it.
- Donna Strickland
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#Home
#Men
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GĂ©rard Mourou, who was my PhD supervisor, dreamed up the idea of increasing laser intensity by orders of magnitude. He did it while he was on a ski trip with his family. He probably shouldn't have been thinking about lasers.
- Donna Strickland
#About
#Family
#Intensity
#Thinking
#Up
I just think white light generation is just one of these remarkable things to see, and actually, you know, one colour of light goes in to just water or any clear anything and out comes all the colours of the rainbow when the pulses are short and intense enough.
- Donna Strickland
#Generation
#Light
#Rainbow
#Water
#White
But I don't see myself as a woman in science. I see myself as a scientist.
- Donna Strickland
#I See
#Myself
#Science
#See
#Woman
I mean I certainly tell the Maria Goeppert-Mayer story and I'm happy that life isn't like that. I'm glad there were trailblazers like her and Marie Curie.
- Donna Strickland
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#Life
#Mean
#Story
#Tell
I think we've been pushing for a lot of years and I do feel like women's lib was talked about a lot in the 70s and I certainly always felt that, you know, as a woman, I could do whatever the heck I wanted.
- Donna Strickland
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#Feel
#Know
#Woman
#Women
Sometimes you just have to be happy you get one chance in life and not worry too much about whether you get two.
- Donna Strickland
#Be Happy
#Chance
#Life
#Sometimes
#Worry
For her PhD, Maria Goeppert Mayer, a theoretical physicist, came up with the idea of multi-photon physics. That means an atom absorbs two or more photons simultaneously.
- Donna Strickland
#Her
#More
#Physics
#Two
#Up
We read to our kids at bedtime because we want to have literacy, but what are we doing to make sure kids are equally fascinated by science?
- Donna Strickland
#Doing
#Literacy
#Make
#Science
#Want
My PhD was not fast out of the gate.
- Donna Strickland
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#Gate
#Out
#PhD
I was a very shy kid and both my best friend and my sister went to Waterloo, and I just thought no I can't, I can't go there because I'll just hang on to them and no one will even know who the heck I am and that's no way to go through life.
- Donna Strickland
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#I Am
#Life
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#Way
If somebody else thinks something that you don't believe in, just think they're wrong and you're right and keep going. That's pretty much the way I always think.
- Donna Strickland
#Always
#Believe
#Keep Going
#Right
#Way
I was very good at math and physics. And that's all. I can't do music, art, so there was not a lot of choice for me. I think people should go with their strength and that was my strength.
- Donna Strickland
#Art
#Choice
#Good
#Music
#Strength
There's no point in me being something other than me.
- Donna Strickland
#Being
#Me
#Other
#Point
#Something
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