Quote by Daniel Kahneman

“More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive—incorrect—answer.”

— Daniel Kahneman

Almost nothing anyone told me about Harvard has been accurate.

— Alexandra Petri

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

“The other day a patient told me that he had gotten into what was a very good college. 'It's not Harvard,' he said. 'Harvard's…

— Mark Vonnegut

The inaccuracy issue. Going back to college having a 56-percent completion percentage. Obviously, it's not great. But I think that it's a little blown…

— Josh Allen

In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the…

— Norm MacDonald

Sometimes you have Harvard undergraduates who stun you with the depth of their knowledge. That is why it is great to be at a…

— Athanasios Orphanides

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

— Murray Gell-Mann

“According to one Harvard study, more students attended America’s elite universities from the top 1 per cent of income backgrounds than from the bottom…

— Edward Luce

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it…

— Daphne Koller

“the math tells us why: the unknown has a chance of being better”

— Brian Christian

With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores…

— Sonia Sotomayor