Quotes About Academia

College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation

our university system–learn and regurgitate.

in 2010, a University of Alabama scientist gunned down six of her colleagues. Here's what made Amy Bishop snap.

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

Jake Berry, a reporter with the Nashua Telegraph (New Hampshire), concluded after a 2013 interview with gun control researchers: "On the whole, Lott's colleagues—both in the media and academia—don't dispute his findings [on gun-free zones].

It is far more seemly to have thy Studie full of Bookes, than thy Purse full of money.

Unfortunately, many analysts – in academia, special-interest groups, governments, and the press – still presume that common-pool problems are all dilemmas in which the participants themselves cannot avoid producing suboptimal results, and in some cases disastrous results.

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

I've asked around and haven't found a B.A. yet who doesn't still have nightmares (and I don't speak figuratively) about not being able to find the room where the exam is to be given or about realizing at the last moment that he has not once attended the course.

Se trata de un viaje largo, azaroso. Extraña y noble aventura propia de su prodigioso tiempo: traer las luces, la sabiduría del siglo, hasta aquel humilde rincón de la España culta, su Real Academia.

como cuando el gobierno decidió implantar la física newtoniana en las universidades y la mayor parte de los rectores y catedráticos se opusieron a esa iniciativa, o

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

Though much of serious academia rejects the notion of "radicalization"—there is no empirical basis for predicting when an individual will commit acts of violence—the approach generally followed by law enforcement, whatever its flaws, follows the "bunch of guys" theory: the idea that young people join radical groups through peer pressure and in clusters.

I liked art history. Also liked the gender ratio, especially compared to applied math and physics.

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

During my first semester of college, I raised my hand in a class and asked the professor to define a word I didn't know. The word was holocaust, and I had to ask because, until that moment, I had never heard of it.

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

I don't thrive in a school or academic environment, I found out. I thrive better in the world outside the small academy because I find it hard to explain what I'm doing.

Professor Macleod, in his remarks, gave everything that I was going to say and used the pronoun 'we' throughout. The following day, students were talking about the remarkable work of Professor Macleod.

When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.'

The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.