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Jane Goodall

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

Jane Goodall

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Jane Goodall suggests that many women feel more connected to intuition and may find the traditional, rigid way science is taught unappealing. She implies that the impersonal style of teaching science could discourage people like her from pursuing a scientific career.

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