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Quotes About Cornell

Early in my doctoral training at Cornell University, I became immersed in the behavioral decision theory paradigm.
~ Gad Saad
they weren't far from the small city of Ithaca – which meant the vast sprawling spectacular campus of Cornell University…
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and science, and I've been influenced by people like Ernst and Rauschenberg, Cornell and Bosch and Bruegel, by writers like Haruki Murakami to Pablo Neruda to Artaud.
~ Dustin Yellin
In 1960, I earned my Chemistry Degree from Cornell University.
~ Janet Reno
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
~ Tea Obreht
Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.
~ Andrew Dickson White
I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.
~ Roald Hoffmann
One thing that I have thought ever since Temple of the Dog is that I would never say no to an interesting collaboration, and that's partly where Audioslave came from.
~ Chris Cornell
But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.
~ Robert Jay Lifton
I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.
~ Roald Hoffmann
In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed.
~ Ricky Jay
In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.
~ Kenneth G. Wilson
After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
~ Eric Allin Cornell
During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.
~ David Einhorn
It is also possible to carve atomic devices using electron beams. For example, scientists at Cornell University have made the world's smallest guitar, one that is twenty times smaller than a human hair, carved out of crystalline silicon. It has six strings, each one hundred atoms thick, and the strings can be plucked using an atomic force microscope. (This guitar will actually play music, but the frequencies it produces are well above the range of the human ear.)
~ Michio Kaku
I was accepted into Cornell in 1979 and went there to follow a finance and business path. I ended up pursuing marketing and sales because I was selected by Procter & Gamble as an undergraduate candidate to go into its brand management program, which is typically available only to M.B.A. candidates.
~ Reggie Fils-Aime
In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.
~ Hu Shih
But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.
~ Robert Jay Lifton
In 1958 a Cornell professor, Frank Rosenblatt, attempted to do this by devising a mathematical approach for creating an artificial neural network like that of the brain, which he called a Perceptron.
~ Walter Isaacson
While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.
~ Irwin M. Jacobs
To be worshiped, though I didn't realize it at the moment, is a far more dangerous situation to be in than simply to be desired.
~ Cornell Woolrich
Dr. Eric Cassell, an internist at Cornell University, concluded about his patients, "If I had to pick the aspect of illness that is most destructive to the sick, I would choose the loss of control.
~ Philip Yancey
Recognizing the artist Joseph Cornell's genius for recycling, he inscribed a book to him as the Benvenuto Cellini of Flotsam and Jetsam
~ Unknown
I paced while he slept, ricocheting like a dove skidding the lonely confines of a Joseph Cornell box.
~ Patti Smith