Quotes About Scholarly

That's a relief. I hate it when scholars disagree.

When the Orthodox tradition of biblical knowledge is taken as a whole, which is not easily attainable, taking years and multiple teachers, it can clearly be seen that the Torah was composed by influence of divine origin, a position that stands in opposition to the common scholarly opinion that it is the garbled mess of a multitude of redactors.

The bookish theoric.

staying safely in the ivory tower is much more comfortable for academics,

Scholarship must go on. For good or for evil, but inevitably, in every field.

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.

I had accidentally stumbled onto something much more surreal—a whole fraternity of beleaguered and bandaged academics who had produced scholarship offensive to one identity group or another and who had consequently been the subject of various forms of shout-downs.

The majority of the wealth of human knowledge is owned by a few publishing companies that hoard information and make billions off licensing fees, although most scholarly articles and journals are paid for by taxpayers through government grants.

I felt nerdy until the day I earned an impressed "Where did you learn that, Sage?

The second rule of thumb is that if some issue seems exceptionally important to you, make the effort to read the relevant scientific literature. And by scientific literature I mean peer-reviewed articles, books published by well-known academic publishers, and the writings of professors from reputable institutions.

It is significant to realize that the most creative environments in our society are not the ever-changing ones. The artist's studio, the researcher's laboratory, the scholar's library are each deliberately kept simple so as to support the complexities of the work-in-progress. They are deliberately kept predictable so the unpredictable can happen.

A theory is the academic equivalent of a guess. - Gordon

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

Genomic science, as the newest frontier in scholarly research, is throwing open the door to a revolutionary way of approaching our health, the health and welfare of animals, and the sustainability of our environment.

My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.

Many of the "scientific" or scholarly ideas about Jesus paraded in the media every Christmas and Easter are increasingly obsolete, based on assumptions, theories and unproven hypotheses that are, in some cases, more than a century old and which have been superseded by more recent research.

It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

was at once appalled and impressed. Personally, he could not recall having read or heard of an instance where a human economist had resolved a disagreement with a fellow academician by ripping out the other's tendons and ligaments.

The thing that chiefly struck me was the rarity of really bookish people.

A great deal of my mail comes from fans of the 'Oz' picture - fans of all ages. The scholarly, the curious, the disbelievers write and ask how? why? when? what for? did you fly? melt? scream? cackle? appear? disappear? produce? sky-write? deal with monkeys? etc., etc., etc.

I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.