Gentlemen! We are a university, not a bath-house!

In 1915, Emma Noether arrived in Göttingen but was denied the private-docent status. The argument was that a woman cannot attend the University senate (the faculty meetings). Hilbert’s reaction was: “Gentlemen! We are a university, not a bath-house!”

— Anecdote about Emma Noether (German mathematician, 1882-1935) and David Hilbert (German mathematician, 1862-1943)

Albert Einstein and others have described Emma Noether as the most important woman in the history of mathematics!  Please read about her.