From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes exile harvard offer
I came to graduate school at Harvard University in 1954. My thesis supervisor, Julian Schwinger, had about a dozen doctoral students at a time. Getting his ear was as difficult as it was rewarding. I called my thesis 'The Vector Meson in Elementary Particle Decays', and it showed an early commitment to an electroweak synthesis. Sheldon Lee Glashow callcommitmentdecay share on social
It's a wonderful honor to win an Ignobel Prize. Sheldon Lee Glashow honorignobelprize Change image and share on social
In 1956, when I began doing theoretical physics, the study of elementary particles was like a patchwork quilt. Electrodynamics, weak interactions, and strong interactions were clearly separate disciplines, separately taught and separately studied. There was no coherent theory that described them all. Sheldon Lee Glashow begincoherentdiscipline share on social
I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there. Drew Gilpin Faust graduateharvardhuman share on social
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. Charlotte Perkins Gilman americancityexile Change image and share on social
Have you ever been offered a job by a poor person? No one has. Matt Bevin jobofferperson Change image and share on social