Undergraduate Quotes
66 quotes by 63 authors
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My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one of my teachers,…
— Antony Hewish
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On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to the real world.…
— Morris Kline
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I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.
— Ernest L. Boyer
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Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation of Hofmeister's epoch-making…
— Douglas Houghton Campbell
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The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true.
— John Ziman
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I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist.…
— Ian Rankin
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The environmental issues we face today are complex and span many knowledge domains. This undergraduate degree programme in Environmental Studies will nurture a pool of…
— Tan Chorh Chuan
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We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc. The missing area…
— Judith Curry
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I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.
— Frederick Reines
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I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level,…
— James Black
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For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977
— Anita Hill
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As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient…
— Donald Johanson
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Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by…
— John Maeda
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I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet…
— Thomas Merton
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[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
— Virginia Woolf
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Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.
— Cathy McMorris Rodgers
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I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships…
— Alonzo Church
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In those same 10 years, women are getting more and more of the graduate degrees, more and more of the undergraduate degrees, and it's translating…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me…
— Orson Scott Card
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St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Who Wrote These Undergraduate Quotes
63 authors contributed a total of 66 Undergraduate Quotes, led by these top contributors: