John Henry Carver Quotes

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

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

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

I really missed going to college. I missed not having that education and that experience.

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.

I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.

I loved the college experience of studying.

I've thought about going back to school.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

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

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

I have no urge to go back to college.

I would like to go to University and be like a normal 20 year old.

I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.

I entered Hofstra University as a psychology major.

I came to Nashville to go to Belmont. I went to school to be a student.

I want to spend my time at colleges and universities.

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

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

I love college. I know I sound like a dork.

I'd definitely like to go to college some day.