Involved Quote by William DeVries

Too, some of my teachers helped me to navigate those books, showed me the maps and paths and secret decoder rings - people like…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it helped me…

— Wangechi Mutu

Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what…

— John Muir

I got through at Ignatius. I did OK, not great in any of my academic endeavors.

— William M. Daley

Our next-door neighbour taught physics at Hampton University. Our church abounded with mathematicians. Supersonics experts held leadership positions in my mother's sorority, and electrical…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

— Irene Rosenfeld

The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.

— Matt Taibbi

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics.…

— Tim Blake Nelson

From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that…

— David Gross

You have to be honest, have integrity, be able to cooperate and get along with other people. Sigma Chi is a great place to…

— Jim Palmer

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

— Imran Khan

My senior year at College Park, University of Maryland, I took an elective class in crime fiction taught by Charles C. Mish. He turned…

— George Pelecanos