James Loeb Quotes

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

As we returned to Argentina, I started seriously to work towards a doctoral degree under the direction of Professor Stoppani, the Professor of Biochemistry at the Medical School.

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

On completing my degree, I started a Ph.D. in statistics, although I knew very little about the topic. My supervisor was Professor Harry Pitt, who was an excellent pure mathematician and probabilist.

I'm not sure if I'll become Dr. Du Toit. I'm at the early stages of a long journey.

As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university.

I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

I don’t know anyone in government who would read the academic journals that policy school professors get rewarded for publishing in.

Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.

I always like to do quite a lot of homework; I quite like to do the research. If I didn't do this, I think I would like to be a researcher.

Too many people go to university.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

Being the first in my family to go to college, I believe, is my greatest accomplishment. It's not my accomplishment; it's my family's accomplishment.

I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.

I took a sociology class, and I got an A in it. Then I found out you could get an emphasis in criminal justice. I wanted to be an administrator.

I obtained a Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Fellowship and entered the graduate program in History at the University of California. With no Greek or French and minimal Latin and German, I was in no position to pursue my classical interests, so I began work at Berkeley with little more than an open mind.

No one in my family graduated from college until my brother did, and then I did.

After winning the Miss India title at the age of 16, I resumed my studies.

After graduation from high school, I attended the university entrance examination, and fortunately, I was accepted by the Department of Pharmacy and became a student at the Medical School of Peking University.

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I do school online. My favorite thing to do with school is to finish things and then watch it go away, especially when I am working on a laptop.

There was no question that I was going to school.