Agnes Meyer Driscoll

(1889–1971) Mathematician

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Agnes Meyer Driscoll was a mathematician.

Quick Facts About Agnes Meyer Driscoll

Born: July 24, 1889
Died: September 16, 1971
Profession: Mathematician

About Agnes Meyer Driscoll

[Wikidata] American cryptographer... | [Wikipedia] Agnes Meyer Driscoll, known as "Miss Aggie" or "Madame X'", was an American
cryptanalyst during both World War I and World War II and was known as "the first lady of naval cryptology."

Quotes by Agnes Meyer Driscoll

We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.

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Absolute truth

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Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.

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Fortunate

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Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.

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Creative

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We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.

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Democracy

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Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.

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Ideals

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We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood…

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Ancestor

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The children are always the chief victims of social chaos.

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Chaos

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What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact,…

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Facts

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