Margaret Wertheim

Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.

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These are some quotes by Australian author Margaret Wertheim Writer, who was born in 1958.

Quotes by Margaret Wertheim

Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is deeply ingrained in our cultural genes.

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Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.

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One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.

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