Top 21 Margaret Wertheim Quotes
#1. In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.
Margaret Wertheim
#2. If you see a strange thing, try to understand it! If you can understand it, nothing strange will remain!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.
Margaret Wertheim
#4. The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.
Freeman Dyson
#5. Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.
Margaret Wertheim
#6. We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#7. Why was he doubly irritated?
Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded himself twice not to forget.
James Joyce
#8. If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.
Margaret Wertheim
#9. Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.
Margaret Wertheim
#10. When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.
Margaret Wertheim
#12. One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.
Margaret Wertheim
#13. There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
H.L. Mencken
#14. Theo nodded slowly. "You love Balanchine chocolate like I love cacao."
"I wouldn't say love, Theo."
"No, you speak the truth. Love isn't right. It isn't right for me either. Sometimes I hate cacao." Theo looked at me. "You don't love Balanchine chocolate. You are Balanchine chocolate.
Gabrielle Zevin
#15. Life, especially human life, was an act of defiance. It was never meant to be, and yet it existed in an incredible number of places across a near-infinite number of solar systems.
Matt Haig
#16. I've always enjoyed fashion and dressing up for things, whether it's high fashion or play fashion.
Darren Criss
#17. All gradients of reality, all existential distinctions, have finally been annihilated.
Margaret Wertheim
#18. Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is deeply ingrained in our cultural genes.
Margaret Wertheim
#19. The backcountry signs say stuff like BEYOND THIS POINT IS A HIGH RISK AREA, WHICH HAS MANY HAZARDS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, AVALANCHES, CLIFFS, AND HIDDEN OBSTACLES, YOU MAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COST OF YOUR RESCUE and I think, um, no thanks. I choose life.
Cynthia Hand
#20. When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
James Nachtwey
#21. The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Christianity is like one large fraternity where brother and sisterhood is tested by hazing.
Shannon L. Alder
