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According her husband, Robert, Dr. Adams then decided to abandon science and take up art.
On the other hand, she is content to abandon science altogether when it suits.
Perhaps it used to be the case, 20 or 30 years ago, that there wasn't that much of a difference in income between financier and scientist, but now there is a much larger gap, and so the incentives to abandon science are much higher now.
It's hard to know how to respond to Miller: the bitterness is expressed with such comic brio (lots of funny accents to represent Hollywood moguls and tetchy Italian tenors), the remorse at his decision to abandon science to pursue about eight other glittering careers so misguided, the salmon sandwiches consumed with such satisfaction, that I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
However, I was absolutely certain that I did not want to abandon science completely.
The discrepancy in those fields arises in part because 70% of women abandon science before obtaining a baccalaureate degree (compared to 63% for men).
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Prasher ultimately abandoned science.
(Margaret Thatcher had abandoned science for law).
Most of the reporting has readily abandoned science for science fiction.
Monika Kulicka's chlorophyll restoration projects look like abandoned science experiments (Johnson).
He worked several years in radio, and sometimes remarked in interviews that he felt guilty for having abandoned science.
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