Quotes About Academia

revolutionary feminist thinking was most accepted and embraced in academic circles. In those circles the production of revolutionary feminist theory progressed, but more often than not that theory was not made available to the public. It became and remains a privileged discourse available to those among us who are highly literate, well-educated, and usually materially privileged.

After less than a week on campus I discovered I wan't that bright. All the students were bright; many of them extremely gifted and perceptive. Yale was a great leveler for me, because I now studied, worked, and lived with dozens of high-achieving students, and I didn't stand out among them.

Professor Sengupta had the self-satisfied habit common to many academics of pretending an intellectual equality with his audience in order to happily demonstrate his own superiority.

I admit that I resent running out of research money.

These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.

Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.

In 100 years, we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching remedial English in college.

Only in academia did people talk such bullshit and expect to be taken seriously

En resumen, un científico es por definición un rebelde que se enfrenta a todo lo establecido, que desafía el principio de autoridad y que no se cree nada de lo que le cuentan. Todo científico es un escéptico y un revolucionario. Por eso soy científico, no porque acepte sin crítica lo que me diga la academia. Además, ¿quién es la academia? La ciencia no tiene sanedrines.

Zwar hatte er anfangs keine Ahnung vom Vogelschutz gehabt; dafür war er in zwei Jahrzehnten an einem geisteswissenschaftlichen Lehrstuhl zum Experten im Beantragen von Fördermitteln geworden. Als die neuen Kollegen erkannten, mit welcher Leichtigkeit er EU-Dokumente ausfüllte und Antragsbegründungen formulierte, hatten sie schnell begonnen, ihn zu lieben.

Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.

Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.

Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

In grad school, I led a bit of a double life. I don't mean gender-wise - I just mean intellectually.

People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: 'Why would anyone want their children to be the brightest?' Academia is a lonely world.

A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

From the point of view of this relatively new and inchoate academic presence, then, the gay studies movement, what distinctive soundings are to be reached by posing the question our way—and staying for an answer? Let's see how it sounds. Has there ever been a gay Socrates? Has there ever been a gay Shakespeare? Has there ever been a gay Proust? Does the Pope wear a dress? If these questions startle, it is not least as tautologies.

This was Oxford, after all

The Left did not regard JK favorably, given his efforts to strengthen a free market economy with participation of foreign capital. Nor was he much admired by the academy that viewed with suspicion his flamboyant democratic attitude, which usually led him to reconcile conflicting forces. My father was a federal deputy at that time, a member of the coalition of parties that supported the government.

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. After both parents completed postdoctoral fellowships in San Diego in 1962, my father took a faculty position in the Physics Department at Yale, and so the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut.

School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best.

Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.

Throughout my entire three years at Sussex I never spoke to another law student. I talked in tutorials but as soon as they finished I was away back to my room to listen to my records.