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 Copy Share Image
When you're in a room with twenty people who've all got the True Theory of the universe, it's difficult to know what to do.… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our mathematical descriptions… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated. — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm. — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
One way to think about a pure hyperbolic surface is that it's the geometric opposite of a sphere. If you look at a sphere,… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This is what I call the "cosmological problem" of science. Science has the instrumental function that has given us computers and so on, but… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
Simple DNA gradually morphed and evolved, so that you had the coming into being of ever more complex and diverse creatures, until one day… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
I have an abiding interest in how ordinary people produce knowledge, and what it means for individuals to know the world. I thought I'd… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
As a child it was clear to me that in some sense math was in the world around us. I became fascinated by what… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
