Magic Quote by Deborah Harkness

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

— Edgar Mitchell

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

I got into astronomy through an interest in religion.

— Carolyn Porco

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

— Werner Heisenberg

I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that's the kind of stuff that still makes my…

— Win Butler

I read about eastern philosophy and religion and existentialism. All that introspective thinking got me thinking about the great beyond. That turned my sights…

— Carolyn Porco

When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein, and the…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that…

— Steven Chu

I was going to be a doctor since I was three, so I was pre-med in college. Everything I did, every class I took,…

— Yael Cohen

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

— Philip Kitcher

After two years of undergraduate study, it was clear that I was bored by the regime of problem-solving required by the Cambridge mathematical tripos.…

— Philip Kitcher

Science and mythology were the topics which fascinated me since my early childhood.

— Vangelis