Shuji Nakamura The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States. – Shuji Nakamura
Shannon Lucid When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science. – Shannon Lucid
Sean Spicer As a Harvard Ph.D. economist and U.C. Irvine professor, Dr. Navarro has been instrumental in challenging the prevailing Washington orthodoxy on so-called free trade. – Sean Spicer
Sara Pascoe Many of my memories of my mum are of her in the bath with a book, utilising her limited spare time by simultaneously washing and studying. She left school with no qualifications and now has a PhD. If I seem like I am bragging about this, I am. – Sara Pascoe
Sam Harris I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. ‘The End Of Faith’ is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment. – Sam Harris
Sallie Krawcheck We shouldn’t think anyone needs a Ph.D. in advanced investing in order to begin to invest. – Sallie Krawcheck
Rodney Brooks I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn’t set out to be a businessperson. – Rodney Brooks
Robert Zubrin In the 1960s, reaching for the moon meant just that. It was a metaphor for attempting the impossible, and we attempted it, and we did it. And it inspired millions of people in every way. The number of science graduates in this country doubled in the 1960s at every level – high school, college, Ph.D. – Robert Zubrin
Robert Woodrow Wilson Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic. – Robert Woodrow Wilson
Robert Mundell I went to the University of Washington in Seattle. This was a very good place to study, and I learned a lot. But it wasn’t the right place for my Ph.D. – Robert Mundell
Robert Edwards My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by Alan Beatty, my research was based on his work on altering chromosomal complements in mouse embryos. – Robert Edwards
