Elizabeth Moon Quotes

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

My high school career was undistinguished except for math and science. However, having barely been admitted to Rice University, I found that I enjoyed the courses and the elation of success and graduated with honors in physics. I did a senior thesis with C.F. Squire, building a regulator for a magnet for use in low-temperature physics.

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

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

Fifty percent of our high schools do not even offer calculus—no one in those schools can take calculus.

I read 'On The Road' in college. I was 18 or 19, and I had a particular quarter where I was taking biology, calculus, and physics. Those were my three classes. It wasn't a well-rounded schedule at all. It was hard, hard work, all the time - hours and hours and hours of homework.

The standard high school curriculum traditionally has been focused towards physics and engineering. So calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra have always been the most emphasized, and for good reason - these are very important.

When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra.

The chips fall into place, but the educational experience I had at Cal, second to none.

I was in school for a little bit at Rutgers for political science, but it was very loose.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

I studied law at university and was sort of grooming myself to go into that kind of career. I filmed 'The Wedge' while studying, which was very difficult, but I'm proud I completed my degree.

I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.

When they [students] select a college which has published its requirements, they elect to do what it prescribes for the attainment of a degree – and, perchance, an education.

Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.

Gina Gershon was a year ahead of me in college.

I went to college at University of Tennessee.

I just felt that I might to go to university and get some real life. It wasn't stimulating in the same way. I loved being at Bristol, but I missed the thrill of being on set.

I always say getting my bachelor's was the single hardest thing I've done in my life. Once I got to university, I was working harder than I ever had before and, for the first time in my life, I was getting bad grades. It was demoralising.

I have met a lot of women who are good at math.

I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years, where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after my sophomore year there, I went to the San Francisco Ballet school for the summer, but then they offered me a scholarship to stay for the year.