Cambridge University Quotes:

You can use the Internet to find out, from anywhere on the planet: exactly how much coffee is in a certain coffee machine at Cambridge University in England; exactly how many sodas are available in certain vending machines at certain major universities; and much, much more.

- Dave Barry

topic: Coffee, Cambridge University, Machines, Vending Machines

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.

- Werner Herzog

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Cambridge University, Talking, Korea, Antarctica

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.

- Werner Herzog

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Volcanoes, Cambridge University, Able

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.

- Eric Idle

source: "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python’". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

topic: Children, Cambridge University, Work Ethic, Goons

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.

- Nancy Pearcey

topic: Oxford, Paris, Intellectual, Cambridge, Cambridge University

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.

- William Browne

topic: Horse, Kings, Book, Cambridge University

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.

- Trevor Nunn

topic: Winning, Parent, Lucky, Cambridge, Cambridge University

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

- Robert Lacey

topic: School, Sunday, Boys, Cambridge University, Grammar School

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.

- Rupert Sheldrake

topic: Years, Research, Royal, Cambridge University

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.

- Lou Gerstner

topic: Chinese, Goes On, Want, Archaeology, Cambridge University