As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.
I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.
Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page] in the German and British academic tradition.
I probably got more out of sports in high school than I did out of classes.
That was unfortunate. I should have compared religion with religion and compared Islam not with Trinity College but with Jews, because the number of Jews who have won Nobel Prizes is phenomenally high.
I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.
I am better at math than spelling.
I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.
All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.
Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics, fared in chemistry
Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.
