Biography Quote by George Pólya

I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.

— George Polya

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

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

— Philip Kitcher

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 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

Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught…

— Albert Einstein

I wanted to be an astronomer until I discovered I'm terrible at math.

— Juliana Harkavy

I was particularly good at math and science.

— William Standish Knowles

“There are gaps in my education which no one could ever fill. But, they don't matter to me. I do not need to know…

— Anne Rice

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the…

— John Pople

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

— Elizabeth Moon

I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.

— Robert Coleman Richardson