Children Quote by James Essinger

She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you…

— Gary Paulsen

“Astronomy, because of that peculiar history, has a fascinating legacy of early contributions by women.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Casanova was a librarian.”

— John Lloyd

I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E.…

— Connie Willis

“Upon her butler’s announcing the arrival of Mr Ravenscar, Lady Mablethorpe, who had been dozing over a novel from the Circulating Library, sat up…

— Georgette Heyer

“One whose testimony made a major impact more than a decade ago is Ben Barres, formerly Barbara Barres, a biologist at Stanford University. In…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Avery had described one of the most momentous discoveries in the history of science, and no one could think of anything to say.”

— Matthew Cobb

“She was her own kind of dreamer, a blind mathematician skating along the thin surface of life, believing in the saving power of logic,…

— Jessica Shattuck

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman

No individual has done more to help me pursue a career in science than my wife of forty-five years. I met Enid Cassandra Morgan…

— Robert Fogel

Ada came from Lwów. She was a very good looking girl who was studying mathematics at the University of Geneva. For a few years…

— Stanislaw Ulam

“You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).' Emma Darwin to husband Charles”

— Deborah Heiligman