Berkeley Quote by Bryce S. DeWitt

“Szilard encouraged me to apply for a postdoc position at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, though he knew I might work on nuclear…

— Gregory Benford

“Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted to be writers when we…

— Ernest Hemingway

I arrived at Princeton as a graduate student from the University of Manitoba in 1958. To my great good fortune, I fell into work…

— Jim Peebles

“A great physicist taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He published many important books and papers. Often he had an idea in the…

— Annie Dillard

“And there was some point as a professor at Stanford and Harvard when I experienced being caught in some kind of a meaningless game…

— Ram Dass

“I’ve had to work hard for a lot of things in my life. I remember being told I probably wouldn’t get into Cambridge University…

— Tom Hiddleston

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

— Duffy Daugherty

“Having some foundation for believing, by this time, that nature and accident had made me an author, I pursued my vocation with confidence. Without…

— Charles Dickens

As a child, I walked with my friends to Rosa Parks Elementary and then to Ben Franklin Middle School. I rode Muni to Galileo…

— London Breed

At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.

— Robert B. Laughlin

“I first studied at the "School of Hard Knocks." I was a very good student...”

— José N. Harris

“At least when he was at Aglionby he could turn over his papers to see the grades, concrete proof of his success at something.”

— Maggie Stiefvater