Mathematician Quote by Margot Lee Shetterly Download Open image “I'm not a scientist or a mathematician.” — Margot Lee Shetterly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mathematician Science Scientist
There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones. — Lipman Bers Copy Share Image
“...internalized the Negro theorem of needing to be twice as good to get half as far.” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the WHITES ONLY sign in view” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of a decade when everything was beginning to seem possible, nothing seemed impossible.” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was done at… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians.” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Like craftsmen in a medieval guild, NASA engineers hoped that one day their children would decide to take up the mantle of the profession… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
The success of 'Hidden Figures' proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories about transcendent human experiences. — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Early in her career at Langley, Dorthy Lee was interviewed for the Daily Press, in all probability by Virginia Biggins, the female reporter assigned… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Get the girl to check the numbers,' said the astronaut. If she says the numbers are good, he told them, I'm ready to go.” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas tout su. ( And perhaps, posterity will… — Pierre De Fermat Copy Share Image
If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such… — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair. — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
