Celebrating Women’s History Month with quotes from female scientists
March is Women's History Month in United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. We're celebrating with quotes from trailblazing women scientists.
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by March is Women’s History Month in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. We’re celebrating with quotes from trailblazing women scientists.
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This is an evolving list that we’ll be updating throughout the month … so check back often.
KATHERINE JOHNSON, NASA RESEARCH MATHEMATICIAN
“We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.”
LYNN CONWAY, COMPUTER SCIENTIST AND TRANSGENDER ACTIVIST
“If you want to change the future, start living as if you’re already there.”
CHIEN-SHIUNG WU, EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICIST
“I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. I disproved one of the then widely accepted “laws” of physics, ‘the conversation of parity’, by proving that identical nuclear particles do not always act alike.”
JOYCELYN ELDERS, PEDIATRICIAN AND FORMER SURGEON GENERAL OF THE U.S.
“Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.”
MARIE CURIE, DOUBLE NOBEL LAUREATE (PHYSICS & CHEMISTRY)
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.”
ELLEN OCHOA, FIRST HISPANIC WOMAN IN SPACE
“Curiosity is probably one of the most important characteristics that people have who go into science, and engineering is about solving problems and creativity.”
MARYAM MIRZAKHANI, MATHEMATICIAN AND FIELDS MEDAL RECIPIENT
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“You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.”
VERA RUBIN, ASTRONOMER
“In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of 10. That’s probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance-to-knowledge. We’re out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.”
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK, CYTOGENETICIST
“If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off … no matter what they say.”
DR. NADINE CARON, CANADA’S FIRST FIRST NATIONS SURGEON
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“Sometimes I’m so optimistic … And then on other days I experience things in the hallways or I hear things that are unintended to be heard and you just hang your head … And so I think in the end it’s just like anything else. We’re not there yet but we don’t even have the right to stop trying to get there.”
