One definition of a physicist is that a physicist is a person who gets really bugged about a question like this and then spends their life trying to solve it and problems that are related to it.
-- Prescod-Weinstein (Chapter One)

Importance: Prescod-Weinstein offers several different definitions, or ways people can define for themselves, what it means to be a physicist, or a scientist in general. This is one of the first clear definitions she gives, and she wants to make it clear that her definition of a scientist is based on what a person does, not how much they are paid, how many degrees they have, or how prestigious the place they work is.

For those reading between the lines for interesting analogies, there’s actually nothing titillating to see in the language here. ‘Color’ and ‘white as neutral’ are her not as reflections of how the universe works, but rather how a homogenous... (Chapter One)