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…

— Margaret Wertheim

Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our…

— Margaret Wertheim

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

— Margaret Wertheim

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

— Margaret Wertheim

If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the…

— 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…

— 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.

— Margaret Wertheim

This is what I call the "cosmological problem" of science. Science has the instrumental function that has given us computers and so…

— Margaret Wertheim

When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that…

— Margaret Wertheim

Simple DNA gradually morphed and evolved, so that you had the coming into being of ever more complex and diverse creatures, until…

— Margaret Wertheim

I have an abiding interest in how ordinary people produce knowledge, and what it means for individuals to know the world. I…

— Margaret Wertheim

As a child it was clear to me that in some sense math was in the world around us. I became fascinated…

— 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…

— 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.…

— Margaret Wertheim

Seeing and playing with physical objects can enable access to symbolic ideas. When I studied physics and math at university it was…

— Margaret Wertheim

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

— Margaret Wertheim

Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical…

— Margaret Wertheim

I believe that there is a love that moves the sun and the other stars.

— Margaret Wertheim

I don't know of any science writing going on in women's magazines, unless you count medical stories about things like breast cancer.…

— Margaret Wertheim

In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and…

— Margaret Wertheim

Nature rarely does anything mathematically perfect, and naturalism results from imperfections and deviations.

— Margaret Wertheim

Almost all major scientific projects today are huge collaborations, yet we still have this public obsession with the idea of the individual…

— Margaret Wertheim

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

— Margaret Wertheim

It turns out that hyperbolic structures are very common in nature, and the place where lots of people encounter them is coral…

— Margaret Wertheim

Mathematicians are proud of the fact that, generally, they do their work with a piece of chalk and a blackboard. They value…

— Margaret Wertheim