Jazz Jennings Quotes

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 have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

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'm the product of the classical, old-fashioned European education that is broad-based. You want to get your degree in the world, you have to study all sorts of things.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

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

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.

Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.

My best subjects were chemistry and math.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

I do regret that when I went to college, I didn't have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in musical theater, so it was a very directed toward what I was doing. I wish that I had expanded my horizons a little bit.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

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.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.