Quotes About Academic

I was reluctant to start the company that would become Lytro, primarily due to my academic background.

I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.

The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me.

My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe.

A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic.

As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publish it, and then it's published, and you don't say it again. If someone comes and gives a scholarly paper about something they've already published, that's just terrible. As a university president, you have to say the same thing over and over and over.

Education in Bavaria is tough. You fail sports, you have to repeat the year.

The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

I didn't grow up watching films, as I was more academically inclined.

As the controversy between [D. T.] Suzuki and [Chinese historian] Hu Shih suggests, the history of Chan/Zen is the product of two distincts milieux, the Buddhist institutions and the academic world. Serving as relay stations between these two circles are Buddhist institutions such as Komazawa University in Tokyo and Hanazono College in Kyoto, respectively affiliated with the S?t? and Rinzai sects.

he's straight-backed, thanks to monthly Alexander Technique sessions to counteract what he calls academic hunchback syndrome

Unfortunately for Black teenagers, those cultural stereotypes do not usually include academic achievement.

Well, the way I heard it, you pleaded with Phil to help you with your algebra," she said. "And since he needed the extra credit, he caved in and agreed.

Plagiarism is one of the great academic sins. It has the power to destroy a scholar or writer and turn a lifetime's work to dust.

Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

For facts are stubborn; they do not disappear when historians or sociologists refuse to learn from them, though they may when everybody has forgotten them. In our case, such oblivion would not be academic, it would quite literally spell the end of the American Republic.

the customary academic suspicion of anything that is not guaranteed to be mediocre need have been involved.

Swiftly I learned that regardless of the source or when it was written, information relating to virginity is rarely presented in such a way that it is free of bias, superstition, or simply the kind of inaccuracies that often sneak into even academic books under the guise of things everybody knows.

To be no more than scholarly reflection on its object from one particular standpoint, which is anyway one legitimate standpoint among others.

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