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One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.

There's something really beautiful about science, that human beings can ask these questions and can answer them. You can make models of nature and understand how it works.

From Margaret Geller

Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss.

From Margaret Geller

When we look out into space, we're looking back in time; the light from a galaxy a billion light-years away, for instance, will take a billion years to reach us. It's an amazing thing. The history is there for us to see. It's not mushed up like the geologic record of Earth. You can just see it exactly as it was.

From Margaret Geller

I didn't know what kinds of questions to ask in mathematics. In physics, I could see there were things that were known and things that weren't.

From Margaret Geller

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.

From Margaret Geller

I had a great deal of confidence when I graduated from Berkeley. I had almost none when I was at Princeton. After a while, when people tell you you can't do something because you're a woman, you begin to believe maybe they're right.

From Margaret Geller

When I won the MacArthur, I didn't receive a different amount of money than the men did.

From Margaret Geller

It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my students very seriously. Harvard should have a bona fide commitment to me.

From Margaret Geller

The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and retain the most distinguished women in the world is empty.

From Margaret Geller

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