I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

— John Pople

Authentic Cambridge University quotations

Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that.

Cambridge university quote I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

Cambridge university quote A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University.

I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

Cambridge university quote Believe you deserve it and the universe will serve it.
Believe you deserve it and the universe will serve it.

I've been accepted at Cambridge University.

I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.

The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;

With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.

Cambridge university quote Everything in the universe is whithin you. Ask all from yourself.
Everything in the universe is whithin you. Ask all from yourself.

The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its history, it adapts itself with more or less promptness to the requirements of the times, has lately instituted a course of Experimental Physics.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

I was able to persuade them to let me shoot in areas that were beyond the volcano itself. Beyond the joint scientific program between Cambridge University and North Korean scientists. I was able to film in a kindergarten, subway, other things you would not normally be allowed to do.

Cambridge university quote In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience.

My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were listening to the Goons, I was studying, which enabled me to go to Cambridge University.

If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College] or Cambridge [Harvard College]. The latter will return them to us as fanatics and tories, the former will keep them to add to their population.

My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.

Cambridge university quote There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and tha
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen.

The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.

Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'

I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.

Cambridge university quote Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees
Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars.

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