
I didn’t do anything alone but try to go to the root of the question and succeeded there.” – Katherine Johnson
“I was excited at something new, always liked something new, but give credit to everybody who helped. “Everything is physics and math.” – Katherine Johnson. Never did I get up and say I don’t want to go to work.” – Katherine Johnson I went to work every day for 33 years happy. This was what a research mathematician did. “I found what I was looking for at Langley. “There has been a lifeguard shortage for a while, so it’s good that young people are into it.” – Katherine Johnson. “I liked working with smart people.” – Katherine Johnson. “Like what you do, and then you will do your best.” – Katherine Johnson. “I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.” – Katherine Johnson. 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.” – Katherine Johnson “Men don’t pay attention to small things.” – Katherine Johnson. “I was just excited to have challenging work to do and smart people to work with.” – Katherine Johnson. “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 felt most proud on the success of the Apollo mission.” – Katherine Johnso. And there will always, always be mathematics.” – Katherine Johnson Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. “Our teachers made such a difference – all my teachers and professors were very supportive and nurturing.” – Katherine Johnson. “Once you took the first step, anything was possible.” – Katherine Johnson. 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.” – Katherine Johnson Katherine johnson nasa badge professional#
“Even as a professional in an integrated world, I had been the only black woman in enough drawing rooms and boardrooms to have an inkling of the chutzpah it took for an African American woman in a segregated southern workplace to tell her bosses she was sure her calculations would put a man on the Moon.” – Katherine Johnson.“In math, you’re either right or you’re wrong.” – Katherine Johnson.I’m as good as anybody, but no better.” – Katherine Johnson
“I don’t have a feeling of inferiority.