Calculus Quote by Elizabeth Moon

In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding…

— Francois Englert

I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual…

— Alastair Reynolds

I originally went to school for engineering because I loved math and thought I liked science.

— Christina Tosi

I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me.…

— Leonard Susskind

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

— James Rothman

I started out with the intention of studying physics. I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well…

— Timothy Simons

When I was growing up, I wanted passionately to be a physicist.

— Eileen Pollack

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

— Albert Einstein

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

— Terri Windling

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

— Elizabeth Moon

I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

— Leonard Susskind

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

— Jerry Buss