Katherine Johnson Quotes

1918–2020 United States

Katherine Johnson (August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American human computer whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.

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Random Katherine Johnson quote

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I’ve spent a lot of time tutoring kids in math as a volunteer. I’ve always enjoyed helping people understand what they can find in math. There’s no judgment there.

We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics. Everything is physics and math.

Katherine Johnson: A Lifetime of STEM (2013)

But then we’d be back with our colleagues on the job. People are people. My father’s advice helped. He said, “You’re no better than anybody else, but nobody is better than you.”

We put in some long hours at times, and I had three children at home. But they were very responsible, and I had family and friends who helped look after them.

It’s just there. You can’t do anything without it. It’s in everything. I like to work problems. If you do your best, nobody can ask you to do it over again. I never had to repeat what I did.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Katherine Johnson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.