Dairy Quote by John Steinbeck

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

— Mary Callahan Erdoes

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual…

— Alastair Reynolds

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

— Philip Kitcher

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

— Jerry Buss

I was particularly good at math and science.

— William Standish Knowles

I became a cognitive psychologist because I met a bunch of teachers I really liked.

— Daniel Levitin

I took all the philosophy courses I could

— Judd Nelson

I started John W. Henry & Company because I enjoyed applying mathematics to markets, and it was a profound challenge that resonated within me.

— John W. Henry

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I…

— Carl Sandburg

I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably…

— Nathan Myhrvold