Richard Ernst Quotes

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting.

If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.

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

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.

When I finished high school, it was clear to me that I would study mathematics, even if I also considered economics and psychology.

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.

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

Fewer than 13 percent of high school students will continue to study math and science in college—usually the most well-prepared and persistent students who often come from families where encouragement and enrichment is fundamental

Yes, from the time I was in junior high school I decided I wanted to be a chemist. I didn't quite know what a chemist was, but I kept it up and got my Ph.D. in physical chemistry.

Where did I study? I went to P.S. 6. I went to Collegiate, Middlesex, Tufts, Juilliard.

In 1960, I earned my Chemistry Degree from Cornell University.

I moved to Mumbai to pursue my degree after high school.

I definitely would like to go to university.

I'd like to go to university. I'd like to do a bit of travelling.

My first job out of school was to do basic research at Johns Hopkins University's applied physics lab.

I went to Enloe High School and then East Carolina University and graduated with a business degree in marketing.

I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia.

I never went to university.

I had a plan. I played football professionally but I also studied at university.

As a child, I envisioned a career in the hard sciences. In sixth grade, I was buying college chemistry textbooks.

I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that's where I first encountered her, in her class.

I had gotten a master's degree in administration supervision with it in mind that I would some day be a professor, then get a doctorate degree and move up and eventually be president of a university.

There was no question that I was going to school.