About Quote by Whitfield Diffie

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

— Jerry Buss

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I…

— Francis Ford Coppola

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

— David Chalmers

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

— George Smoot

I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a…

— Freema Agyeman

When I was growing up, I knew I wanted to be a mathematician, but I had no idea what that entailed.

— Terence Tao

My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father…

— Herbie Hancock

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

— Philip Emeagwali

I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of…

— David Chalmers

Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist. This was…

— Shreya Ghoshal

I was very lucky to be born into a very academic family. I was well-read, well-trained in mathematics. I had lots of advantages to…

— Abhijit Banerjee

When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.

— Ma Huateng