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

— James Rothman

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me. There, I realized I wanted to be a physicist. I had to tell him, which was a somewhat traumatic experience.

— Leonard Susskind

I was always good at math and science and physics.

— Daniel J. Evans

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

— David Gross

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

— Burton Richter

I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.

— Robert Coleman Richardson

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

— John Henry Carver

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

— Elizabeth Moon

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

— Nathan Myhrvold

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

— Micky Dolenz

✗Opposing Perspectives

In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding of the underlying theoretical structure, and I decided to learn physics.

— Francois Englert