These phrases have been gathered during the conference and cited during the summary talks by Ian and Matthew.
| We paint in black and white whereas reality is grey. |
| Aake Nordlund |
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| How low can you go before you have to worry about the vermin? |
| Tyler Bourke |
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| People who do chemistry are very brave. |
| Alyssa Goodman |
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| It seems bonkers to ignore what we see locally when interpreting more distant objects. |
| Lee Hartmann |
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| Sometimes I worry that we are not including the essential physics. |
| Matthew Bate |
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| Can you please let the chairman chair the session! |
| Telemachos Mouschovias |
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| PowerPoint science. |
| Thomas Megeath |
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| It is always a temptation to over-interpret the results from numerical simulations. |
| Mordecai-Mark Mac Low |
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| Star Formation follows such a diversity of paths no simple model can expect to capture them all. |
| Dirk Froebrich |
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| We had a frank exchange of views, but little communication. |
| Lee Hartmann, referring to an earlier communication with a colleague |
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| Thank you for a very nice and depressing talk. |
| Joao Alves |
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| I hope this scares you not too much. |
| Henrik Beuther |
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| If you assume the wrong model, you are screwed. |
| Eric Keto |
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| We send up a 150 Million Dollar satellite and all we get back is a flat image. |
| Jürgen Steinacker |
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| No Bok globule is an island. |
| Tyler Bourke |
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| I'll call your ambipolar diffusion and raise you a Bonnor Ebert Spear. |
| Doug Johnstone |
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| There is more room to wiggle out when you include free parameters. |
| Dick Crutcher |
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| Everyone can be simultaneously correct. |
| Alyssa Goodman |
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| At most one model can be correct. |
| Aake Nordlund |
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| We are willing to live with observational results once the uncertainties have been removed. |
| Telemachos Mouschovias |
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| Most, if not all, of my models are wrong. |
| Shantanu Basu |
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| When we see H2, we see Star Formation. |
| Lee Hartmann |
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| Molecular clouds do not form stars. Dense cores form stars. |
| Philippe Andre |
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| Why do clouds not form stars? |
| Doug Johnstone |
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| Do stars leave clouds or clouds leave stars? |
| Alyssa Goodman |
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| Do stareless cores turn into chickens or omlettes? |
| Jennifer Hatchell |
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| Cores do not interact. |
| Philippe Andre |
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