Academic Interest Quotes

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

After my undergraduate, I've written a thesis that was in the government department, but largely, it turned out almost an economic type of thesis. And I was very interested in that, and I wanted to go get a Ph.D. in Economics.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.

If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember there was a primary school teacher who really woke me up to the joys of school for about one year when I was ten. He made me interested in things I would otherwise not have been interested in - because he was a brilliant teacher. He was instrumental in making me think learning was quite exciting.

I love English and literature.

This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.

When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful.

I loved science. I still love it; I'm a nerd in that sense.

I was glad I liked chemistry.

One of the reasons I'm so passionate about science is that it wasn't correctly taught to me. I got excited at university.

You’ve never been to school, ever? If that’s true— and you’re right, I don’t think it is—what made you decide to come this year?” “You....Your eyes, Nora. Those cold, pale gray eyes are surprisingly irresistible.” He tipped his head sideways, as if to study me from a new angle. “And that killer curvy mouth

I am a qualified civil engineer but academics never attracted me as I was a sleepoholic when I was in college.

It's that engagement of learning that makes us feel alive.

Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.

I find the history of toys very interesting on an academic level - they're very much products of their time, just like paintings and furniture tell us about their time.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.

Don't have a favorite subject, I think I want to carry on doing this because I really enjoy it.

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

There seems to be no end of books about the British empire, and the fascination it holds for historians of all descriptions is inexhaustible.