Katherine Johnson Quotes

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.

There's math, and everything else is debatable!

I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

Truth is not half way between right and wrong;

When you're right, you're right, when you're wrong, you're wrong and that's all there is to it.

I believe only in the mathematics.

I don't believe that there are two sides to a story when it's a matter of right versus wrong. It just doesn't work that way.

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is just two times two, and that is what we call four for short. But four is nothing new at all. And thus it goes on and on in its conclusions, except that in the higher formulas the identity fades out of sight.

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

Numbers are the most certain things we have.

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

I like Math because there's only one right answer.

There are no sects in geometry.

Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.

Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.

You’re not exempt from math if you’re a Republican, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a Democrat. You’re not exempt from math if you’re a liberal, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a conservative. You still have to do math.