A curated register of quotes from under-represented voices.

“ In nature nothing exists alone. ”

— Rachel Carson, 1962

“ A willingness to ask questions and to learn, that is what is important. ”

— Ellen Ochoa

“ What's above us connects us. Every group of people around the world have looked up at the stars for thousands of generations. ”

— Mae Jemison

“ Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid. ”

— Hedy Lamarr

“ Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. ”

— Mae Jemison

“ Don't be afraid to reach for the stars. I believe a good education can take you anywhere on Earth and beyond. ”

— Ellen Ochoa

“ I think it's very important to get more women into computing. My slogan is: Computing is too important to be left to men. ”

— Karen Spärck Jones

“ The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. ”

— Ada Lovelace, 1843

“ I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. ”

— Alan Turing, 1950

“ That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show. ”

— Ada Lovelace

“ What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. ”

— Jane Goodall

“ I counted everything. 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

“ The world needs all kinds of minds. ”

— Temple Grandin, 2010

“ Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men. I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better. ”

— Katherine Johnson

“ Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. ”

— Marie Curie

“ I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough. ”

— Marissa Mayer

“ We're proud of what we've achieved but recognise that gender is the tip of the iceberg. ”

— Amy Lynch, 2018

“ The only way to survive is by taking care of one another. ”

— Grace Lee Boggs

“ If not me, who, if not now, when. ”

— Emma Watson, 2014

“ I do not believe that any ethnic, racial or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. ”

— Sonia Sotomayor, 2009

“ I'm a proud person who happens to be deaf. ”

— Marlee Matlin