Cambridge Quotes

I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics.

— Philip Kitcher

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

— Stephen Hawking

We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.

— Grace Chatto

I worked in the theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts for years and moved to New York and then to Los Angeles.

— Tony Shalhoub

I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!

— Douglas Adams

I worked in restaurants, and I worked in the Cambridge Public Library.

— H. Jon Benjamin

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

— Samuel Butler

The use of data for political purposes wasn't invented by Cambridge Analytica.

— Brittany Kaiser

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

— Merton Miller

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here…

— Ian Mckellen

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing…

— Emma Donoghue

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the…

— Graham Coxon

I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I…

— Peter Ackroyd

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking,…

— Sylvia Plath

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in…

— Henry David Thoreau

When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some…

— Robert Gottlieb

I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing…

— James D. Watson

That was sheer luck that it [being immersed into folk scene] happened when my voice began to develop. I don't know exactly…

— Joan Baez

I was able to persuade them to let me shoot in areas that were beyond the volcano itself. Beyond the joint scientific…

— Werner Herzog

If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t…

— Francis Spufford

It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the…

— Alan Bennett

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

— Philip Kitcher

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

“The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at…

— Richard Rhodes

A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly…

— Lord Chesterfield

Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when…

— Freeman Dyson

You panicked". Venetia's voice is suddenly throbbing, as though she can't control a long-buried anger. "You panicked, Luke, and we lost the…

— Sophie Kinsella

“Beyond this point on the river Cambridge became a kind of miniature Venice, its river water lapping up against the ancient stone…

— Rebecca Stott

“The Bloomsbury Group has been characterised as a liberal, pacifist, and at times libertine, intellectual enclave of Cambridge-based privilege. The Cambridge men…

— Jane Goldman

“He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.”

— Lily King

At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.

— Naomie Harris

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

— Syd Barrett

I was born in Cambridge but brought up in and around Winchester, in Hampshire. I've also lived in Hong Kong and America.

— Chris Geere

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

— Antony Hewish

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

— John Ortberg

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

— Anne Stevenson

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

— Christopher Wylie

One of the reasons why I'm speaking out is because I think that it's really concerning that no one has really investigated…

— Christopher Wylie

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I…

— John Pople