Academic Interests Quotes

I really was the nerd in the car that read vocabulary books. If we were going on day trips, I would quite like to have just stayed in the car with my German and French vocab books. It's embarrassing to admit to it now.

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

I would have studied English, but I really don't like to read.

I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't worry about grades and I read and learned a lot, and I didn't have much of a social life, so it was deeply absorbing.

My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating, and in college debating, and interested in contemporary events.

I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

My father was a physicist, while I am a biogeochemist. I live to study plants, and he has never had more than a generic interest in biology.

School would have been pretty dead really for me without music. I liked IT, and English was all right, but that was it.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

I reveled in political science and history of all kinds, and I felt for a long time that I had discovered all the secrets of life in psychology, although its Freudian variety left me cold. The id never made much sense to me.

I think Veblen had an interest in logic.

At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.

The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.

Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

At college, I wasn't passionate about anything I was studying.

My family was scientifically inclined: My brother did turn into a neurophysiologist, and I almost became a scientist myself. I could have gone that way.

Nowadays people seem to switch schools, either because they have to, and certain schools only serve certain grades, or because they move to a different place or have some particular interest, but I was in the same school for 13 years.