I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my…

Justin [Di Cioccio] was [at Laguardia School of Arts]. He later took over at Manhattan. But I knew Justin through the McDonald's band, which…

— Jon Gordon

After two years of undergraduate study, it was clear that I was bored by the regime of problem-solving required by the Cambridge mathematical tripos.…

— Philip Kitcher

From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.

— Miriam Margolyes

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions,…

— Merton Miller

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My interest in philosophy began as early as eight years old - I started thinking about those kinds of heavy questions about life and…

— Steve Weinstein

“Furthermore, in the 13th/19th century philosophy began to see itself as a complete replacement for religion as one can see in the rise of…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

— Khalil Gibran

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.

— Benjamin Moser

As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to 'Non-Cooperative Games,' also…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

— Anonymous

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

— Felix Klein

When I came back from Munich, it was September, and I was Professor of Mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Later I learned…

— Edsger Dijkstra

I studied mathematics fairly broadly and I was fortunate enough...also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties. So I…

— John Nash

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

— Harold E. Varmus