Princeton University Quotes

• When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.

  John Katzman

  Teacher, Minimum Wage, Saws

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• The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a slow thinker. Einstein was famous for spending ages staring into space in his office at Princeton University.

  Carl Honore

  Space, Office, Mind

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)

  Albert Einstein

  Views, People, Support

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• Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise wheel, they developed more brain cells and they learned faster than sedentary controls. I believe in mice.

  Bernd Heinrich

  Believe, Exercise, Cells

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• I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Senior, Couple, Writing

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• As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  War, Eras, Revolutionary

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• Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

  Steven Holl

  Unique, Opportunity, Challenges

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• I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.

  Emilio Ambasz

  America, June, Parent

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