John Muir Quotes

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

I was home-schooled.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

I went to the University of Washington in Seattle. This was a very good place to study, and I learned a lot. But it wasn't the right place for my Ph.D.

I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.

As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction.

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.

I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.

There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

I wonder if economics has less basic core material than is necessary for fields such as mathematics, physics, or chemistry, say.

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that.

Fifty percent of our high schools do not even offer calculus—no one in those schools can take calculus.

I loved Stanford and symbolic systems. For me, I came to Stanford assuming I would be a doctor and got really deep into chemistry and biology, but I noticed everyone who was on the same track as me was taking the exact same classes. I wanted to do something more unique.

The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment.