First job Quote by Gordon Moore

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

— Jeff Bezos

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 studied physics as an undergraduate, and after I graduated from Rice University, I was actually hired at the Johnson Space Center as a…

— Shannon Walker

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

— Simon Newcomb

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

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.

— Mark Gatiss

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 spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

— Geoffrey West

I'm an engineer. I studied physics and engineering. In fact, in 1978 I started working as an aerospace engineer with General Dynamics. I used…

— Edwin Moses

My degrees are in physics and space physics, and I did well enough in university that I actually started working at the Johnson Space…

— Shannon Walker

I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but did not…

— Piers Corbyn

When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and…

— E. L. Konigsburg