Katherine Johnson

1918–2020 · African-American mathematician

Topics: mathematics, learning

• 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.

  — Katherine Johnson

• 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