"I saw her, one day, divide a nine-figure number by nine other figures, in her head, without any help, in the presence of a mathematician unable to keep up with her."
~ Voltaire
"She was a great man whose only fault was in being a woman. A woman who translated and explained Newton in one word, a very great man." ~Voltaire
"Judge me for my own merits." ~Emilie duCh�telet expressing her attitude on the views of women in her time
" A woman who conducts learned controversies on mechanics like the Marquise duChatelet might as well have a beard." ~Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher
