Grad Student Quotes

#1. The classification above is based on a 2011 presentation by MIT grad student David Hernandez for my cosmology class. Because such simplistic taxonomies are strictly impossible, they should be taken with a large grain of salt:

Max Tegmark

#2. I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school.

Andy Hertzfeld

#3. When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars.

Peter Diamandis

#4. This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.

Neal Stephenson

#5. Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side

Robert M. Sapolsky

#6. I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.

Judith Faulkner

#7. Only a four-hundred-year-old vampire would wonder if a grad student could understand procrastination.

Chloe Neill

#8. What kind of grad student do you take? I never take a straight A student. A real scientist tends to be critical, and somewhere along the line, they had to rebel against their teachers.

Lynn Margulis

#9. Are you in the military?"
"No, I'm a grad student. I used to be a boy scout, if that helps.

Anna Durand

#10. I was hugely impressed ... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me.
I wish every grad student had that attitude.

Randy Pausch

#11. If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

Paul Graham

#12. General Dempsy despaired. The prophecies were impossible to argue since no proof could be offered to discredit them. They were sacred and above reproach.

Brian Rathbone

#13. I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.

Robyn Hitchcock

#14. I felt a little lost as a student. At Iowa, I felt as if I had gotten into this program that was going to save me, and so I moved myself across the country for grad school and yet still didn't have a home. It was upsetting. And I know that's a common feeling.

John D'Agata

#15. Working together precedes winning together ... collaboration is multiplication.

John C. Maxwell

#16. There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

Erica Jong

#17. The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.

Scott Jurek

#18. Stay open to as many new tools and think of as many ways you can to utilize them to your advantage. This not only includes equipment and hardware but also software or apps like Sun Seeker and social media outlets like Instagram and Twitter to build community.

Vincent Laforet

#19. It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which people ("& why") is drug A better than drug B, and vice versa? If drug A cures 40% and drug B cures 60%, perhaps the right choice of drug for each person would result in 100% cures.'

Lancelot Hogben

#20. At certain times you really feel as though you have to do something.

Jessica Lange

#21. I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

Elle Fanning

#22. When you truly love yourself, you do not accept abusive relationships, because you know you deserve better.

Stephen Richards

#23. Positive thinkers focus their minds on the future; they are never complacent about where they are.

Israelmore Ayivor

#24. When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.

Jo Nesbo

#25. I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.

Dana Hill