Charles Vest Quotes

I've always been the type that's more about academics and technology.

If my idea was just to maintain a certain lifestyle, there would be no need to get a Ph.D. But I do care very deeply about the idea side as well.

My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.

The most important thing you can do for yourself is get an education. Learn, listen, and respond. You have to study and practice to get better at your craft and to widen your skill set.

In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school.

It's wonderful to see more of my colleagues recognizing the importance of investing in STEM education and scientific research and development.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.

More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.

There was a time when bright people had few prospects for higher education and good jobs here. But that is changing. India is no longer seen as an undesirable place to work or pursue research.

As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.

I didn't go to university, and I always had in my mind that I hadn't studied properly.

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.