Margaret Geller Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I had a great deal of confidence when I graduated from Berkeley. I had almost none when I was at Princeton. After a while, when people tell you you can't do something because you're a woman, you begin to believe maybe they're right.”

“There are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but is really serious.”

“When I won the MacArthur, I didn't receive a different amount of money than the men did.”

“I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.”