Steven Weinberg Quotes

I finished my Ph.D. at Berkeley in November 1987 and took a position as an independent fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in January 1988.

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

As an undergraduate at Columbia, I went to the engineering school. I had a great deal of training in engineering and mathematics as well as subdiversified training. And then I went to the California Institute of Technology to do my Ph.D. in applied math.

I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.

I was promoted associate professor in early 1970 and full professor in October of the same year. I spent the two spring semesters of 1972 and 1974 as visiting professor at Harvard University, giving lectures and directing a research project.

Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.

Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.

In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.

From B.A. to M.A. and on to Ph.D., my academic career was all smooth sailing. Upon receiving my degrees, I stayed on to teach at Beijing Normal University.

I plan on getting my Ph.D. from the city of Stockton.

In 1996, I received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Southern California.

My doctoral work was completed by the end of 1950 and, at the age of twenty-two, I joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an instructor in chemistry under the distinguished chemists Roger Adams and Carl S. Marvel.

As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959.

I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.

I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

In 1952, I was appointed Professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Physics Institute, with very good students waiting for a thesis advisor.

Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.

I am a native of Taiwan, and I earned my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University. I received my master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.

I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random.