Margaret Wertheim Quotes

Margaret Wertheim
Australian Writer
Born: 1958
Inherently Nature Progress Science Women World
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If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas. Margaret Wertheim
Life World Value My Life Would Physical See Could Remembered Like Ideas Anything If I Could Engagement Helping
When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined. Margaret Wertheim
Science Women Physics Progress Men Few Late High Would Hopes Slower Students Had Soon Major Equal Fellow Female Proved Very Than Us Stand Many Imagined
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
Long More Physicists Female Male Years Mathematicians Up Than Convention Against Fields Inherently Portrayed
In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm. Margaret Wertheim
Mathematics Nature Women World Thinking Latter System About Masculine Supposedly Material Material World Doing Were Task Gods Rooted Realm Inherently Associated Numbers

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