Long Quote by Donna Strickland

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not…

— Stephen Hawking

Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything…

— Celia Green

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

As physics has proven, we're ultimately particulate matter, which means we are all one. That's why racial and gender bias is so ridiculous.

— Valerie Harper

Women have much to tell us. Women are capable of seeing things in a different angle. Women can pose questions that we men cannot…

— Pope Francis

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

— Richard P. Feynman

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but thats not why we do it.

— Richard Feynman

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

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that…

— Jane Goodall

There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad…

— Abraham Pais

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

— Polykarp Kusch

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness.…

— Stephen Hawking