Academic Quotes - page 2

Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e. g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page] in the German and British academic tradition. (Camille Paglia)
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte. View quote
Vernon L. Smith
So, these were the four components of my upbringing -- the academic stuff where I was left to myself, Mahendrabhai, my father's passion for creating Reliance and the last piece was his deep links with the family. View quote
Mukesh Ambani
If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U. S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller. View quote
Terry Eagleton
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. View quote
Georg Brandes
There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic "scientist", the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call "epistemic arrogance", this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it. View quote
Stephen King
Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty. View quote
Jerry Coyne
Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs. (Werner Herzog)
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery of academic and hermeneutic notice. Reciprocally, the academy turns towards that which appears to require its exegetic, cryptographic skills. View quote
George Steiner
The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone sees it. View quote
Hyman G. Rickover
What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other art forms, most notably, the European novel and certain forms on English drama, and indeed, in relation to my rather academic interest in history -- not "history" in the normal sense, but history as a form of entertainment. It might be a very unfashionable view but I believe that history is an amazing bank or reserve area of plots, characterisations, extraordinary events, etc. View quote
Peter Greenaway
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community. View quote
Karl Jaspers
Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair. View quote
Leo Strauss
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace, and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific, and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist! View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Yes, [I spent] two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had been thrown out of their academic jobs because they taught that there was a possibility of life coming from something other than Darwinism, who thought that possibly random selection and mutations didn't account for the universe, didn't account for gravity, didn't account for why nobody had ever seen an individual species evolve -- no one's ever seen an individual species evolve!" View quote
Ben Stein
MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom. View quote
Nicholas Negroponte
The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought, and also offered important stimulation for thought about physics. Following a practical profession is a blessing for people of my type. Because the academic career puts a young person in a sort of compulsory situation to produce scientific papers in impressive quantity, a temptation to superficiality arises that only strong characters are able to resist. (Albert Einstein)
Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything. View quote
Edward Abbey
The research side of academic life is often viewed from the outside as a solo and, at times, lonely activity. In fact, it is quite the opposite: a communal activity in significant part where interaction and interchange generate ideas and critiques of them. View quote
Michael Spence
To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. View quote
Michelle Richmond
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. View quote
Peter Straub