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Graduate Student Quotes

The research years that shaped a career.

One scientist traces a breakthrough back to DNA microarray technology built during their graduate years, a thread worth following into Analysing quotes.

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.

Quotes by Sidney Altman

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

Quotes by Sidney Altman

My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class consciousness of the place and time.

Quotes by Russell Smith

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world...

Quotes by Robert Darnton

Able Quotes

As a graduate student at Harvard, I had to explain quite a few times that I was allowed to attend a university as a woman in Iran.

Quotes by Maryam Mirzakhani

I was a graduate student in 1984 when President Ronald Reagan called for the construction of a new space station. I knew then that I wanted to apply for the astronaut program, and this was an exciting development.

Quotes by Leroy Chiao

Surveying the way viruses have been discovered in the past, I came to the conclusion that I could use my technology that I developed as a graduate student - DNA microarray technology - to create a chip that would simultaneously...

Quotes by Joseph DeRisi

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

Quotes by Jon Postel

As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog...

Quotes by John Gurdon

Alone Quotes

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my...

Quotes by John Forbes Nash, Jr.

As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to 'Non-Cooperative Games,' also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties.

Quotes by John Forbes Nash, Jr.

When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never failed to remind me that I was more fortunate than they were at this particular juncture...

Quotes by Jenny Zhang

I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that.

Quotes by Francis Collins

When I was a graduate student in computer science in the early 2000s, computers were barely able to detect sharp edges in photographs, let alone recognize something as loosely defined as a human face.

Quotes by Fei-Fei Li

Analysing Quotes

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one...

Quotes by Erica Jong

Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

Quotes by Antony Hewish

I was a graduate student at Oxford when I discovered Georgiana.

Quotes by Amanda Foreman

Frequently Asked Questions

What research areas do these Graduate Student quotes cover?
They span DNA microarray technology, early internet access at UCLA, somatic cell nuclear transfer research at Oxford, and the mathematical roots of what became game theory.
How did graduate school lead to DNA microarray technology?
One scientist explains that studying how viruses had historically been discovered led them to apply microarray technology, developed during their graduate years, to identify a new one.
What is the UCLA and early internet quote about?
The speaker recalls being a graduate student at UCLA at the exact moment it became one of the very first sites connected to what would become the internet.
Is there a quote connected to Nobel-level research?
Yes, a mathematician credits their graduate studies with sparking the idea behind non-cooperative games, alongside a separate discovery related to geometric manifolds made during the same period.
What complements this page's focus on early-career research?
Try Analysing quotes for more on research thinking, or Being quotes for reflections on identity during formative years.

Another recalls being present at UCLA when it became one of the first sites connected to the early internet, while a mathematician credits their graduate work with sparking the idea behind non-cooperative games. See Able quotes or Being quotes.