Degrees Quote by David Papineau

In many ways, the effort to study philosophy was my rebellion away from medicine. I'm the son of two Indian immigrant physicians, so the…

— Atul Gawande

When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing…

— Moby

I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics.

— Philip Kitcher

I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied…

— Patrick Rothfuss

When I got to college, I planned to be a math major, and, in addition to signing up for some math courses, I decided…

— Hilary Kornblith

I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know…

— Wes Anderson

I just realized, sometime early on in college, that I wanted to be a philosopher. I basically decided that I wanted to spend my…

— L.A. Paul

One thing I really like about philosophy is that it's possible actually to do work in a wide range of different areas. I am…

— Richard F. Heck

I studied philosophy in school, became disgruntled by the fact that it was a way to have a very interesting conversation with very few…

— Jonathon Keats

In college, I was dead set on being a philosophy major, because I wanted to figure out the meaning of life. Four years later…

— Jonathan Haidt

I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't worry about…

— Sheila Heti

I graduated with a B.A. in philosophy, and it was by far the best major I could have taken in college.

— Katy Tur