Female Scientist Quotes

“In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you. This leads me to confess that I am not as completely unknown to you as you might believe, but that fearing the ridicule attached to a female scientist, I have previously taken the name of M. LeBlanc in communicating to you those notes that, no doubt, do not deserve the indulgence with which you have responded.

{Explaining her use of a male pseudonym in a letter to Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1807}”
― Sophie Germain

“...because I am a female scientist, nobody knows what the hell I am, and it has given me the delicious freedom to make it up as i go along.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl