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I'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician.

When I get on a plane these days, I go first class.

No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.

I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.

Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college.

I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester.

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.