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He was a cynic and like most cynics, totally selfish and self-indulgent.
— Norman Vincent Peale
...internalized the Negro theorem of needing to be twice as good to get half as far.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
Many times, when children enter school they shun mathematics and science during the years when they should be learning the basics.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
Virginia, a state with one of the highest concentrations of scientific talent in the world, led the nation in denying education to its youth.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
— Ernest Hemingway,
War, technology, and social progress; it seemed that the second two always came with the first. The NACA's work - more intense and
— Margot Lee Shetterly
Is the kind of America I know worth defending?
— Margot Lee Shetterly
each of us should be allowed to rise as far as our talent and hard work can take us. The
— Margot Lee Shetterly
For Mary Jackson, life was a long process of raising one's expectations.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
At fifty years old and many years into her second career, she reinvented herself as a computer programmer.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
I don't quit now, I'll never quit, and if I stay here, I'll be the girl with the blue hair and I'll be known for nothing else.
— Sarah Michelle Lynch
black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the WHITES ONLY sign in view
— Margot Lee Shetterly
It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.
— Winston Churchill
a lifetime of stories
— Margot Lee Shetterly
When the candle flame is very weak, don't create any wind!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
At the beginning of a decade when everything was beginning to seem possible, nothing seemed impossible.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
She always kept up the questioning until she received a satisfactory answer.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
So many ways to screw the pooch, and just one staggeringly complex, scrupulously modeled, endlessly rehearsed, indefatigably tested way to succeed.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
Every reader his or her book.Every book its reader. — S.R. Ranganathan
Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
— H. Rap Brown
The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work.
— Jack Canfield
Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?
— George Bernard Shaw
I changed what I could, and what I couldn't, I endured.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
West Virgina never left Katherine's heart, but Virginia was her destiny.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
She has been standing in the future for years, waiting for the rest of us to catch up. But
— Margot Lee Shetterly
Future generations would take the advances for granted
— Margot Lee Shetterly
Surely she had never traveled a greater emotional distance
— Margot Lee Shetterly
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Langley Research Center. I rode shotgun in our 1970s Pontiac,
— Margot Lee Shetterly
she knew, the most important battles for dignity, pride, and progress were fought with the simplest of actions. It
— Margot Lee Shetterly
Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
He'd undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can't call back the futures that your bad decisions lost
— Orson Scott Card
Sometimes, she knew, the most important battles for dignity, pride, and progress were fought with the simplest of actions.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
As a child, however, I knew so many African Americans working in science, math, and engineering that I thought that's just what black folks did. My
— Margot Lee Shetterly
Insatiably curious about the world.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
Katherine Johnson knew: once you took the first step, anything was possible.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
