American - Mathematician | August 26, 1918 -
We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.
Katherine Johnson
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Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.
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Like what you do, and then you will do your best.
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I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better.
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Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!
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Let me do it. You tell me when you want it and where you want it to land, and I'll do it backwards and tell you when to take off.
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In math, you're either right or you're wrong.
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I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed... anything that could be counted, I did.
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I was excited at something new, always liked something new, but give credit to everybody who helped. I didn't do anything alone but try to go to the root of the question and succeeded there.
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We needed to be assertive as women in those days - assertive and aggressive - and the degree to which we had to be that way depended on where you were. I had to be.
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I found what I was looking for at Langley. This was what a research mathematician did. I went to work every day for 33 years happy. Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work.
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I see a picture right now that's not parallel, so I'm going to go straighten it. Things must be in order.
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