Alan Guth Quotes

Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright, as if they are probably off to win a Nobel prize.

At Harvard, people like to impart the idea that you are a mover and shaker.

I'm really fortunate to be at Stanford. I go home every 10 weeks, but Stanford apart from being just a wonderful university is one of the places that are part of a great conversation.

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 went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

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

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

Everyone praises Harvard 'for the students.' But what makes Harvard's students so great is that they are, in many ways, a cross-section of the larger world. They are normal people who happen to be excellent, and this sets them apart. People who go to Yale go because they want to attend Yale. People who go to Harvard go because they can.

Georgetown is still Georgetown. They have got a tremendous name and recognition. They are in a great area and have a great school.

Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.

Harvard is the home of American ideas.

I wanted to go to Harvard because it felt like it would be the Hogwarts Academy of law schools.

Harvard has plenty of people that are way more important than football players.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

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

M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.

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

One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty.

I have a strong attachment to Harvard.

Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves.

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

I actually had a lot of very smart peers.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

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.