Education Quote by Jocelyn Bell Burnell

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into…

— Sally Ride

One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can…

— Nancy Roman

I was good in science in school and parents thought I would become a school teacher like my mother.

— P. T. Usha

When I went to my local grammar school, Lurgan College, girls were not encouraged to study science. My parents hit the roof and, along…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.

— Peter Carey

I find science really sexy and, at the time that I was a school kid, it certainly wasn't.

— John Noble

Most kids at 10 or 11 love science, but I never outgrew it.

— Nancy Roman

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

— Steve Wozniak

If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as…

— Christine de Pizan

We still raise girls to look to other people for assurance they are attractive and smart, while boys are raised to determine their own…

— Eileen Pollack

Kids are intimidated by the way science and technology is presented. It's made, frankly, quite boring and it becomes part of a curriculum that…

— Dean Kamen

I don't recall my parents ever steering me toward or away from science. It was more that I was steered toward learning and excellence…

— Sandra Faber