I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch. Pardis Sabeti More Quotes by Pardis Sabeti More Quotes From Pardis Sabeti As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over. Pardis Sabeti beststartlovelong I'm looking for all the things that are beneficial in the human genome. Everything that I do is based on a very simple principle: things that are beneficial will spread through populations very quickly. Pardis Sabeti lookingwilleverythingsimple You get these moments of thrill. There you are, at 3:00 in the morning, and you know something about how we evolved that nobody else in the world knows. It's a thrill of discovery. You make this breakthrough, and you find something. It's this wonderful, wonderful scavenger hunt when you got to the end. It's just so great to be a scientist. Pardis Sabeti greatyoumorningworld The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle. Pardis Sabeti puzzlenevergreatamerica My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference. Pardis Sabeti megovernmentcouragefather My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence. Pardis Sabeti mefocustimeschool My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream. Pardis Sabeti goodgood-peoplelifepeople See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together. Pardis Sabeti fightseehumanitytogether Let us not let the world be defined by the destruction wrought by one virus, but illuminated by billions of hearts and minds working in unity. Pardis Sabeti mindsusunityworld My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. In the early days, my entire family lived together in a very crowded house, where I shared a room with my sister, cousin, and grandmother, and we would all listen to my grandmother tell stories before bedtime. Pardis Sabeti sisterrevolutionfamilytogether Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a different culture, I didn't know the boundaries of American culture. Which is that, as a girl, you didn't play football or soccer at lunch with the boys, and to be cool, you didn't get into math Olympiad. Pardis Sabeti coolgirlfootballlife The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did. Pardis Sabeti necessaryreacti-believebelieve I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family. Pardis Sabeti respecttrustfamilywork Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find. Pardis Sabeti greatyouunderstandingtime I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that. Pardis Sabeti justlikestatisticslove Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more. Pardis Sabeti doubleagainmoretake It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process. Pardis Sabeti creativetimefunpeople I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray. Pardis Sabeti youmusiclovepeople The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory. Pardis Sabeti slowroadcreativeprocess There is - I will just say that there was a disastrous day where I discovered really what radioactivity is and that just because you don't see it doesn't mean that it's not everywhere, so - Yeah. I was a slow learner for sure. Pardis Sabeti slowwilldayyou
