University Quotes

"Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved"

Patrick White, Author

"I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992"

J. Philippe Rushton, Psychologist

"I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots"

Michael N. Castle, Politician

"Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive"

Kevin Mitnick, Celebrity

"Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I'm going to do in tennis - well, I hope. I mean, it depends, so I don't know yet"

Daniela Hantuchova, Athlete

"I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics"

Sidney Altman, Scientist

"I would like to go to University and be like a normal 20 year old"

Louise Woodward, Celebrity

"I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985"

J. Philippe Rushton, Psychologist

"Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted"

Anatoly Chubais, Politician

"I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943"

John Pople, Scientist

"If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court"

Eleanor Holmes Norton, Politician

"Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go"

James Van Allen, Physicist

"My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology"

Sidney Altman, Scientist

"I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree"

Ted Shackelford, Actor

"The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on"

Albert J. Nock, Philosopher

"In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

"It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music"

Gavin Bryars, Composer

"I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

"When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university"

Koichi Tanaka, Scientist

"The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'"

Harold H. Greene, Judge

"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics"

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California"

Shelley Berman, Comedian

"As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses"

Frederic Raphael

"This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman"

Jhumpa Lahiri, Author

"I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine"

Karl von Frisch, Scientist

"I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910"

Karl von Frisch, Scientist

"The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice"

Koichi Tanaka, Scientist

"At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863"

Carl Spitteler, Poet

"As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job"

Jane Goodall, Scientist

"I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office"

George Pataki, Politician

"Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth"

Koichi Tanaka, Scientist

"A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance"

Clark Kerr, Economist

"I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out"

Derek Jacobi, Actor

"After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations"

David Sedaris, Writer

"At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my subject"

David Crystal, Educator

"Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record"

Christine Lavin, Musician

"So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students"

Daniel Nathans, Scientist

"This line of research continued when I went, and brought my research group with me, to the new University of California, Irvine campus in 1966 to become the founding Dean of the School of Physical Sciences"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school"

Angela Bassett, Actress

"I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year"

David Friedman, Musician

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