Academic Pursuits Quotes

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Ada came from Lwów. She was a very good looking girl who was studying mathematics at the University of Geneva. For a few years I had an off-and-on romance with her.

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

First I was going to be a football player, then after that try to study medicine or engineering. But it was very difficult to do medicine, so I did engineering.

I didn't think I was going to school to be a doctor - no offense, but that wasn't me.

I knew without doubt that I would try and continue my education as I was skating.

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes.

I actually went to the university as a psychology major, and at orientation, they took us around the campus and took us to the theater for a skit. At the end of the skit, I literally could not get up out of my seat.

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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

I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.

After 'The White Shadow' was over, I did some more work, but then I wound up taking a year off to teach at Harvard. It afforded me the chance to have a variegated career - a very interesting one.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

I really didn't get to experience college. I enjoyed Ohio State, but I didn't feel like I had a chance to live the college life. When some guys got bored, they went out partying or to the student center. When I got bored, I went to the gym.

Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.

I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first.

I may be older but I never stopped studying.

Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.