Danica McKellar Quotes

I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual employment.

As it happens, although I was at MIT on the faculty full-time for 18 years and then at Harvard for another 16, so I've always been in full-time academia, I always found it was both beneficial for my research and beneficial for the other work to be involved in the practicing community.

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

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

The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works.

There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics.

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

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

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

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

I am never satisfied until I can make a mathematical model of what I am studying. If I succeed in making one, I understand. If I cannot, I do not understand.

I was an American Studies student at Berkeley as an undergraduate, and pretty much as a graduate student, too.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

No one really understands quantum mechanics.

Every day was a good day at UCLA.

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

I was trying to run something to ground that had come to my attention when I was working on the Baroque Cycle. That series, of course, was about the conflict between Newton and Leibniz. Leibniz developed a system of metaphysics called monadology, which looked pretty weird at the time and was promptly buried by Newtonian-style physics.

There are theoretical physicists who imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, but do not experiment; and then there are experimental physicists who experiment, imagine, deduce, and guess.

All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.

When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.