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I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being…

— Timothy Simons

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

— James Rothman

I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me.…

— Leonard Susskind

I think I always wanted to go into physics. What always fascinated me about science was the desire to understand what underlies it all,…

— Alan Guth

I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to also be…

— Jon Spaihts

I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted to be…

— Vandana Shiva

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

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

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

— Elizabeth Moon

When I was growing up, I wanted passionately to be a physicist.

— Eileen Pollack

But curriculum-wise, I was drawn to the sciences and specifically to physics, and I really enjoyed it and I think for a little while…

— Brian Henson

I thought I should study physics because it's fundamental to all science.

— John B. Goodenough