Dan Shechtman Quotes

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

I've said all along it's a humbling experience being at UCLA. Extremely proud, extremely blessed to be at an institution with all this tradition.

I really want to go to Harvard; it's just a matter of timing.

I was the good girl who never needed disciplining, who made straight A's. I applied and was accepted to Stanford University.

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades.

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something.

You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.

Would physics at Geneva be as good as physics at Harvard? I think not. Rome? I think not. In Britain, I don't think there is one place, neither Cambridge nor Oxford, which can compare with Harvard.

Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.

Harvard is nerd rehab. You have to check yourself in. Those who seek a school filled with self-proclaimed 'nerds,' seek elsewhere. Dropping the H bomb may brand you as an intellectual or a Kennedy. But it will not give you much nerd cred. And that's a good thing.

Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.

Harvard is the home of American ideas.

Colgate is the epitome of having it both ways. Academically, it ranks in the top twenty schools in the country, but it is also a famous party school.

I'm very proud of the fact I went to Harvard and I loved my four years there.

I'm very proud to tell you guys I have been accepted into Stanford University, one of the main institutions of learning and research in the world.

I didn't want to go to any school but Duke: the best of the best.

I went to a really smart school where all the kids go to the Ivy Leagues.

Millions of people would give literally anything to get their kids into a school like Harvard, and millions more simple admire it as another, brighter world.

Sometimes you have Harvard undergraduates who stun you with the depth of their knowledge. That is why it is great to be at a university like this.

It is harder to get into Deloitte than into the University of Pennsylvania.