Quote by Jason Fagone Download Open image ““rejected from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania,”” — Jason Fagone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance. — Ronald Biggs Copy Share Image
I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
As a first-generation college graduate, I know I would not have been able to open all the doors Morehouse College provided for me if… — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
“I picked the college I attended partly because it had no math requirement.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Don't Dare take your college as a matter of course- because like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken… — Alice Duer Miller BC 1889 Copy Share Image
I was a pretty unsavvy applicant, and I am grateful that the dean of admissions at Princeton chose to take a chance on a… — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
“W.W. Hale the Forth bought the car for Headmaster Franklin, or didn’t they mention that? Granted it was to make up for the fire… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“America First,” a campaign slogan of Woodrow Wilson, had been adopted by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s” — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
“It's not quite true that history is written by the winners. It's written by the best publicists on the winning team.” — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
“Nikola Tesla predicted in 1926 that “when wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain” — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
“William made his own children sign a checkout slip if they wanted to carry a book” — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
“his mother collapsed at the news that her son had married a shiksa.” — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
“There were possibly three or at most four persons” in the whole United States who knew the slightest thing about codes” — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
“One way of thinking about science is that it’s a check against the natural human tendency to see patterns that might not be there.… — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
“The world is made of stuff and that stuff behaves in certain predictable ways; if you master the rules, you master the stuff.” — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
