Development Quote by Martin Ryle

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

My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one of my…

— Antony Hewish

I was having a hard time getting interest from future employers because of my physics background. It seemed all anyone wanted was engineers.

— Shannon Walker

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

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

I began to realize something - to understand the future you have to understand physics. Physics of the last century gave us television, radio,…

— Michio Kaku

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a…

— Jack Steinberger

I was always good at math and science and physics.

— Daniel J. Evans

I started out in nuclear physics. But after I became more sensitized to the environmental and health implications of the nuclear system - I…

— Vandana Shiva

I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

— Leonard Susskind

Yes, I was really good in physics and in math.

— Eva Herzigova

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

— Elizabeth Moon