Robert Woodrow Wilson Quotes

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry.

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.

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

My brother has a Ph.D. in biochemistry, which I find so totally impressive.

I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.

My parents were typical Asian parents, and they do, like all parents, want their children to be successful. They really encouraged my brother and I to study math and science, and that's what we did as kids.

By the time I got to George Washington University, I had been a straight-A student in high school.

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

I applied to Yale, and I got in.

I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.

As an instructor at Alexandria University, I did research that was published in international journals. Although I left to pursue a doctorate in the United States, it was not for want of a good life.

I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D.

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.

I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom.

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

I actually went to university.

I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.