My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about mathmatics. I must have gotten that from my father, he was a master of math and science, and I always liked that sort of thing, too. Of course my mother and father did not agree with me on becoming more educated in mathmatics, but I was persistent and eventualy they gave in and I was taught by a wonderful teacher.
Florence NightingaleWe set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
Florence NightingaleA want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
Florence Nightingale