College Quote by Frank Wilczek

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

— Philip Kitcher

Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.

— Stephen Sondheim

I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew I wanted…

— Tom Lehrer

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

— Danica McKellar

Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found…

— Andrew Wiles

I've always loved maths, so in college when I started engineering, I had applied math and I really liked it, so I overloaded my…

— Momina Mustehsan

I thought I would go into philosophy and political science.

— Lee Isaac Chung

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 thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it.…

— Bo Burnham

Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't.

— Dan Quayle

I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was…

— Michael Silverblatt

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