I arrived at Princeton as a graduate student from the University of Manitoba in 1958. To my great good fortune, I fell… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
“Studying ice crystals as a graduate student, he eventually found the basic design (equilateral, equiangled hexagon) so icily repeated, so unerringly conforming,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a… — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
My scientific pursuits have led to many opportunities and responsibilities beyond those of simply doing research. For example, as a beginning graduate… — H. Robert Horvitz Copy Share Image
Every year, I have my graduate students read the great works of history, from classical times to the present. They gamely tackle… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
“I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare and bizarre disorder. That is all… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students,… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the graduate student lifestyle maintained no clear distinction between weekday and weekend, a blending together of work and play that culminated,… — Jenny Davidson Copy Share Image
I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I've… — David Ferry Copy Share Image
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
I tell my graduate students [at Bard College], ‘There are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through sustainable business.’… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
It's difficult to get a job and people stay in school longer because they're employed as teaching assistants or instructors by their… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image