As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to 'Non-Cooperative… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“To ensure a well-motivated participant, Pfungst rewarded Clever Hans with a small piece of bread, carrot or sugar each time he responded… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in… — Tammy Duckworth Copy Share Image
We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing… — Antony Hewish Copy Share Image
When I was an impoverished graduate student, I would sometimes spend $20 or $30 on a T-shirt or accessory I didn't need… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The first thing that we did when we moved out to Seattle was enroll me in Stone Soup Theatre. That kind of… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I was a promising graduate student. I landed a position as a professor before I even started to write my dissertation. While… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if… — Heather Wilson Copy Share Image
The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
“In the late '80s and early '90s, the media used a few small studies of babies born of cocaine-addicted mothers to convince… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
“The life of the grownups had caught me, at first by a lock of hair or a finger, but soon it would… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In American law, there is the Constitution and the whole body of common law precedent, and very little of that supports socialism.… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“When I came back I joined a black church in Oakland and that made me feel more at home, a bit like… — Mark Juergensmeyer Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Harvard, I had to explain quite a few times that I was allowed to attend a university… — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
“Syrian-born graduate student in Wisconsin who became biological father of Jobs and Mona Simpson, later a food and beverage manager at the… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Very few parents keep up with who the top professors are or whose classes their kids are taking, partially because most undergraduates… — Andrew Yang Copy Share Image
I have graduate students who have developed this ability to love and want to perfect it. Those are the students I spend… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Today, the Americans have developed a new culture in science based on the slavery of graduate students. Now, graduate students of American… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
“Gabriel slowly raised his head and stared at her. Ten graduate students inhaled as one and began to move backward in their… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
“he had been trying for years to get his graduate students to use such playful investigation rather than rote learning and mechanical… — Stuart Brown Copy Share Image
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student in computer science in the early 2000s, computers were barely able to detect sharp edges in… — Fei-Fei Li Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, that meant that the Braekbills student body was quite the psychological menagerie. Carrying that much onboard cognitive processing power… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I remember my days as a graduate student at Stanford, within any leading university, a very active Israeli support, for Israel, Jews… — Ehud Barak 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
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
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
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