Number Quote by Jocelyn Bell Burnell

As a physics major at Yale in the 1970s, I developed crushes on nearly all my male professors.

— Eileen Pollack

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

I want to try to do something for women in physics worldwide.

— Mildred Dresselhaus

There are some countries where there is not an issue with women in physics. Malaysia, for example, has physics departments where 60 per cent…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were…

— Margaret Geller

There are more females in my university course than males.

— Anonymous

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before…

— Kenneth G. Wilson

In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.

— James Cronin

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

— Jeff Bezos

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics…

— Burton Richter

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

— John Henry Carver

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of…

— Kirsten Gillibrand