Glen Taylor Quotes

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

I was always good at math and science and physics.

I was graduated in 1940 with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Social Science but a major in Mathematics, a paradoxical combination that was prognostic of my future interests.

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

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

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.

I had a good experience in college, but I don't think interdisciplinary education is something that's stressed very much at all. It's generally considered to be something of a bad idea.

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.

By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain a broad base of knowledge in economics and political science, together with reasonable skills in advanced mathematics, symbolic logic, and mathematical statistics.

I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.

I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science.

I'm weird: I like science and math but also like English as well.

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.

I have a B.A. from UCLA. In ethnic studies.

It's one of the tragedies of the modern university that it offers little space to generalists.

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

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.

There are some parts I like about school. I like math a lot, and I like physics.

My best subjects were chemistry and math.