Amherst Quote by Harold E. Varmus

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.

— Richard Flanagan

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

— Robert Darnton

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood

As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

— Joseph Stiglitz

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd…

— Reid Hoffman

I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to…

— Peter Ackroyd

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

— Harold E. Varmus

All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your…

— Mahatma Gandhi

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

— David Eagleman

The Rhodes scholarship process was very extensive. I had to do several personal statements, rewrite those over and over and over again. I had…

— Myron Rolle