Cambridge Quotes · Page 4

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.

— Joan Robinson

I went to a progressive primary school in Kendal, followed by a boys' grammar school and then Cambridge.

— David Starkey

Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

— Luis Walter Alvarez

I'm staggered when I look back at how, when I got to Cambridge, I didn't know anything of the world.

— Alexander Armstrong

The fact that I'm a Tory who hasn't worked at a university - at least, not since I taught at Cambridge in…

— Toby Young

Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism…

— Anonymous

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

— Samuel Butler

He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to…

— Sydney Brenner

There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being…

— Alain de Botton

If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College]…

— Thomas Jefferson

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this…

— Rowan Atkinson

Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in…

— Eric Idle

When I grew up, I simply didn't have mentors that said, "Science is important. Science helps you build a country. Science makes…

— Juan Enriquez

“I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter, not even in Cambridge,…

— Virginia Wolff

Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience. My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were…

— Eric Idle

So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while…

— Salman Rushdie

In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him.…

— William Wegman

In the UK cycling was very popular until the end of the 1950's but it really lost out to our love affair…

— Adrian Bell

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

— Antony Hewish

Yeah, I came over to Cambridge with 500 quid in my pocket and I had to borrow a waistcoat off another Australian…

— Neil Robertson

I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen…

— Tom Hiddleston

Living here in Cambridge, you had to have an identity. It was not enough to be a wife. So I did a…

— Jane Hawking

At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I…

— Eric Idle

What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.

— A. A. Milne

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't…

— Ann Beattie

I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book…

— Richard Dawkins

No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady,…

— Sophie Hannah

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it…

— Zadie Smith

I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving…

— Naomie Harris

I must emphatically state that Cambridge Analytica does not condone or engage in entrapment, bribes or so-called 'honeytraps', and nor does it…

— Alexander Nix

At Cambridge, there was a completely unintimidating culture, and there were no class divisions among the students.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

The experience taught me that the essence of a Cambridge education centers on two questions: What does it mean? How do you…

— Dan Burt

You know, my concern is that even if Cambridge Analytica has dissolved as a company, its capabilities haven't.

— Christopher Wylie

I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want…

— Anonymous

Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.

— Harry Carpenter

Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.

— John Ortberg

As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour,…

— Sid Waddell

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to…

— Bonnie Raitt

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably...…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of…

— Max Beerbohm