A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important… — Herbert Turnbull Copy Share Image
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Cambridge is really understanding and helpful, so that's been good, and it's just a case of trying to get stuff done when… — Hannah Murray Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings.… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
Yeah, I came over to Cambridge with 500 quid in my pocket and I had to borrow a waistcoat off another Australian… — Neil Robertson Copy Share Image
“One final bit of advice. The next time a senior administrator of the CIA tells you she has a national-security crisis ...… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read… — Emma Rigby Copy Share Image
I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The day I left to go to Cambridge, I knew I was going to finish top scorer in the league. — Paul Mullin Copy Share Image
The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I… — Clive James Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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