Philip Warren Anderson Quotes

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

I tried to go and get my master's in-season. That's a tough cookie to try to eat, but it's just a great thing.

Having an education is invaluable.

I'm a big believer in education, period.

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

The value of a good education has never left me.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

I just want to be educated.

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Universities are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry

I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I attended university because I have always felt that education is freedom and power.

I was taught that education is the most important thing.

I think college has helped me.

I think the only value of being in school is that everything you do should be a problem that needs to be solved. Everything should be a challenge.

Education has been really important for me.

Nothing substitutes for a great education.

Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path.