Astronomy Quote by Philip Kitcher

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

— Philip Kitcher

I went through a period of time when math was my favorite subject. Then math wasn't as fun so much.

— Noah Gray-Cabey

I was particularly good at math and science.

— William Standish Knowles

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 did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

— Linda M. Godwin

“[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy…

— Allan McLeod Cormack

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

— Edgar Mitchell

My older brother was the person who got me interested in science in general. He used to tell me what he learned in school.…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

— Sally Ride

Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.

— John James Audubon

When I came to Harvard, I was debating between math and science, and I guess I thought in the end I wanted something that…

— Lisa Randall

It was not to learn about politics that I had gone to Cambridge. I was there as a mathematician, having won a major scholarship…

— Christopher Robin Milne