37 Inspirational Katherine Johnson Quotes

You should always be interested in something. – Katherine Johnson. Here are 37 Inspirational Katherine Johnson Quotes.

Katherine Johnson Quotes

1. “I don’t have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I’m as good as anybody, but no better.” – Katherine Johnson

2. “Men don’t pay attention to small things.” – Katherine Johnson

3. “We always worked as a team. It’s never just one person.” – Katherine Johnson

4. “There’s nothing to it; I was just doing my job.” – Katherine Johnson

5. “I like to learn. That’s an art and a science.” – Katherine Johnson

6. “I was excited at something new, always liked something new, but give credit to everybody who helped. I didn’t do anything alone but try to go to the root of the question and succeeded there.”– Katherine Johnson

7. “I was just excited to have challenging work to do and smart people to work with.” – Katherine Johnson

8. “I see a picture right now that’s not parallel, so I’m going to go straighten it. Things must be in order.” – Katherine Johnson

9. “I’m just lucky — the Lord likes me and I like him.” – Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson Quotes

10. “We had to determine so much. Where you were, where the Moon would be and how fast the astronauts were going.” – Katherine Johnson

11. “Go see ‘Hidden Figures,’ and take a young person! It will give a more positive outlook on what is possible if you work hard, do your best, and are prepared.” – Katherine Johnson

12. “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.” – Katherine Johnson

13. “Like what you do, and then you will do your best.”– Katherine Johnson

14. “I don’t have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I’m as good as anybody, but no better.”– Katherine Johnson

15. “Know how to learn. Then, want to learn.” – Katherine Johnson

16. “I felt most proud on the success of the Apollo mission.”– Katherine Johnson

17. “I found what I was looking for at Langley. This was what a research mathematician did. I went to work every day for 33 years happy. Never did I get up and say I don’t want to go to work.” – Katherine Johnson

18. “Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.”– Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson Quotes

19. “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.” – Katherine Johnson

20. “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 had to be.” – Katherine Johnson

21. “Let me do it. 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

22. “Everything is physics and math.” – Katherine Johnson

23. “Many professors tell you that you’d be good at this or that, but they don’t always help you with that career path.” – Katherine Johnson

24. “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

25. “My colleagues and I were committed to the work. We found different ways to deal with the segregation.” – Katherine Johnson

26. “Our teachers made such a difference – all my teachers and professors were very supportive and nurturing.” – Katherine Johnson

27. “They needed information and I had it, and it didn’t matter that I found it. At the time, it was just a question and an answer.” – Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson Quotes

28. “Once you took the first step, anything was possible.” – Katherine Johnson

29. “Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!” – Katherine Johnson

30. “All jobs are important to somebody. They had to be important to somebody. My theory is, do the best you can all the time. No fooling around.” – Katherine Johnson

31. “Follow your passion. Whatever you’re doing, do your best at all times and make it as correct as possible. Work as if someone is watching you. Then you’ll be prepared when an opportunity presents itself. And you’ll have the answers.” – Katherine Johnson

32. “In math, you’re either right or you’re wrong.”– Katherine Johnson

33. “The women did what they were told to do. They didn’t ask questions or take the task any further. I asked questions; I wanted to know why. They got used to me asking questions and being the only woman there.” – Katherine Johnson

34. “Girls, some of them are reluctant to ask questions. But if you want to know, you ask the question. There’s no such thing as a dumb question. It’s dumb if you don’t ask it.” – Katherine Johnson

35. “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.”– Katherine Johnson

36. “I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.” – Katherine Johnson

37. “Everything was so new – the whole idea of going into space was new and daring. There were no textbooks, so we had to write them.” – Katherine Johnson