Quotes About Academia

I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry.

When I hit 50, I want to go be a professor.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

My parents are professors. My sister is a Ph.D. student. My other sister has a business.

I was close with some of my old professors.

If you say to a group of women professors, 'Close your eyes and think of a professor,' what they will see is a guy. I will. And I'll stop myself and think, 'Hey, hang on, what am I doing here?'

The faculty, from adjunct professors to deans, tell you what to do, what to say, and more ominously, what to think.

Making it to the Final Four, you feel like you're watched on campus. You're in the classroom, professors are talking about it.

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

To be an outspoken professor in academia is a very dangerous proposition.

And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.

I don't recall that when I was in high school or college, any novel was ever presented to me to study as a novel. In fact, I was well on the way to getting a Master's degree in English before I really knew what fiction was, and I doubt if I would ever have learned then, had I not been trying to write it. I believe that it's perfectly possible to run a course of academic degrees in English and to emerge a seemingly respectable Ph.D. and still not know how to read fiction.

Few outside academia would know that the incongruities so frequently cited today as proof of the Bible's unreliability were noted many centuries ago by such as Origen and Calvin.

I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

From aloof academics to career government cronies, President Barack Obama filled his Cabinet with individuals whose greatest achievements were dreaming up unworkable Democratic utopias from the far off perches of academia and Washington bureaucracy.

Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of whom are likely to understand such concepts as stewardship and sustainability much better than men picked from the usual hunting grounds.

Polytechnique is a school whose multidisciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.

Having spent years in academia - at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Oxford University and Harvard Law School - I encountered a wide range of worldviews.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

Like all professors, I also do a lot of extra jobs for which I was never trained, such as advising former students as they navigate the wider world.

One of our main objectives is to restore meritocracy within research and academia, where cronyism is also widespread. We also want to give money back to public research that is dying.

Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield against the powerless.

I have a wonderful wife I met at Rutgers while we were both there. She was in the Ph.D. program. She is not an actress. She definitely brings balance to my life. We actors can tend to bore anyone with shop talk.