Applications Quote by Francois Englert

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

— Leonard Susskind

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics…

— Burton Richter

I was having a hard time getting interest from future employers because of my physics background. It seemed all anyone wanted was engineers.

— Shannon Walker

When I got started in my own engineering course, my interest in physics and maths was very high. After all, engineering is all about…

— Shiv Nadar

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

— Eileen Pollack

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

— Elizabeth Moon

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 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

I started in engineering, where I think I could have happily remained and, who knows, made a bundle as a civil engineer or mechanical…

— Jim Peebles

I started out in nuclear physics. But after I became more sensitized to the environmental and health implications of the nuclear system - I…

— Vandana Shiva

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

I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted to be…

— Vandana Shiva