Physics Major Quotes

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

I had a difficult time getting my arms around Einstein's work, even when I was a physics major at one of the top universities in India.

I started in engineering, where I think I could have happily remained and, who knows, made a bundle as a civil engineer or mechanical engineer. But more of my friends happened to be majoring in physics than engineering, so I switched over. No more compelling reason than that.

As a physics major at Yale in the 1970s, I developed crushes on nearly all my male professors.

When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.

How can you be a physics major and be shocked when you get pregnant from having sex?

Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.