Wertheim Quotes

#1. There is no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding

Henry James

#2. The pain of losing a dollar is far more powerful than the pleasure of winning a dollar.

L. Jon Wertheim

#3. The German language is the organ among the languages.

Jean Paul

#4. 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

#5. All gradients of reality, all existential distinctions, have finally been annihilated.

Margaret Wertheim

#6. With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.

Jonathan Lethem

#7. One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.

Margaret Wertheim

#8. 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

#9. Sometimes in life, you do things you don't want to. Sometimes you sacrifice, sometimes you compromise. Sometimes you let go and sometimes you fight. It's all about deciding what's worth losing and what's worth keeping.

Lindy Zart

#10. Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.

Margaret Wertheim

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.

Freeman Dyson

#15. Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss. Psychologists call this loss aversion, and it means we often tend to prefer avoiding losses at the expense of acquiring gains.

L. Jon Wertheim

#16. Maria Sharapova is her own empire. She herself personally makes more in revenue than the entire WTA tour.

L. Jon Wertheim

#17. Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.

Margaret Wertheim

#18. As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.

L. Jon Wertheim

#19. When I became a mother, there was no doubt in my mind that it would be the most vital and important job I would ever have because I knew firsthand what it was like not to have a mother.

Janette Rallison