“I completed my senior thesis on the quadratic Zeeman effect in hydrogen.”
Burton Richter
“The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.”
James Frank Dobie
“My Ph.D. thesis concerned the metabolic mechanism by which the end product of nitrogen metabolism in the earthworm is switched from ammonia to urea during starvation. I remember spending my nights collecting over 5,000 worms from the University campus green.”
Stanley Cohen
“The housing starts figure coming in down 5.6 percent was weaker than expected and seems consistent with our thesis that the housing sector is moderating. The big decline in housing permits reinforces that idea.”
Patrick Fearon
“We've gotten good reports from a variety of companies, supporting the thesis that corporate earnings are going to increase in the double digits this year.”
Eric Kuby
“We'd like to combine our overall upbeat analysis of consumer spending and retail activity with our baby boom spending thesis. And this is basically grounded on the observation that baby boomers tend to spend more on quality of life and personal indulgences than their parents did when they were at the same age.”
Christine Callies
“We hope this untenable thesis of supposed madness or dementia does not impede the progress of the investigation and the passage of justice, because that would be a global embarrassment.”
Carmen Hertz
