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> [Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-wertheim/nature-doesn-t-feel-compelled-to-stick-to-a-mathematically-precise/)

[Margaret Wertheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-wertheim/)

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## More by Margaret Wertheim

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-wertheim/when-you-re-in-a-room-with-twenty-people-who-ve-all-got-the-true/)

[Margaret Wertheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-wertheim/)

> [Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our mathematical descriptions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-wertheim/wave-particle-duality-is-a-core-feature-of-our-world-or-rather-we/)

[Margaret Wertheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-wertheim/)

> [Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-wertheim/computers-are-very-powerful-tools-but-in-the-simulated-world-of-the/)

[Margaret Wertheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-wertheim/)

> [Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-wertheim/nature-doesn-t-feel-compelled-to-stick-to-a-mathematically-precise/)

[Margaret Wertheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-wertheim/)

> [If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-wertheim/if-i-could-do-anything-in-my-life-and-be-remembered-for-anything-i/)

[Margaret Wertheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-wertheim/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-wertheim/one-way-to-think-about-a-pure-hyperbolic-surface-is-that-it-s-the/)

[Margaret Wertheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-wertheim/)

> [Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-wertheim/female-physicists-astronomers-and-mathematicians-are-up-against-more/)

[Margaret Wertheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-wertheim/)

> [This is what I call the "cosmological problem" of science. Science has the instrumental function that has given us computers and so on, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-wertheim/this-is-what-i-call-the-cosmological-problem-of-science-science-has/)

[Margaret Wertheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-wertheim/)

> [When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-wertheim/when-i-was-a-physics-major-in-the-late-1970s-my-very-few-fellow/)

[Margaret Wertheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-wertheim/)

> [Simple DNA gradually morphed and evolved, so that you had the coming into being of ever more complex and diverse creatures, until one day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-wertheim/simple-dna-gradually-morphed-and-evolved-so-that-you-had-the-coming/)

[Margaret Wertheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-wertheim/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-wertheim/i-have-an-abiding-interest-in-how-ordinary-people-produce-knowledge/)

[Margaret Wertheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-wertheim/)

> [As a child it was clear to me that in some sense math was in the world around us. I became fascinated by what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-wertheim/as-a-child-it-was-clear-to-me-that-in-some-sense-math-was-in-the/)

[Margaret Wertheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-wertheim/)

> [For ten years, I wrote regular columns about science for women's magazines, and to my knowledge I'm the only person in the world who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-wertheim/for-ten-years-i-wrote-regular-columns-about-science-for-women-s/)

[Margaret Wertheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-wertheim/)

> [Science is not just for an elite few. Science's vision of the universe is becoming increasingly inaccessible. That doesn't mean it's wrong. On some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-wertheim/science-is-not-just-for-an-elite-few-science-s-vision-of-the-universe/)

[Margaret Wertheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-wertheim/)

> [Seeing and playing with physical objects can enable access to symbolic ideas. When I studied physics and math at university it was all done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-wertheim/seeing-and-playing-with-physical-objects-can-enable-access-to/)

[Margaret Wertheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-wertheim/)

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