Quotes About Academia

What? She won't graduate because she can't swim the length of a pool? Really? Is this a serious academic position for a serious academic place?

But, as the late Nobel Prize-winning economist George Stigler put it, "the typical university catalog would never stop Diogenes in his search for an honest man."25

You had to be fundamentally stupid , I sometimes thought, to become the sort of academic specialist that hiring committees liked. You had to be thick somehow. You had to block out all the other things in the world to focus on one narrow, particular thing.

Assignments? no problem let me see and get you some good content for your college.

Biology, like any high-stakes academic field, is demanding. Because of this it has a reputation for turning young professors into curmudgeons who adopt a masochistic brand of workaholism, in which relaxation becomes a sign of failure and the accomplishments of peers become tragedies.

Sosyal medya üzerinde çal??an ve dersler veren bir akademisyenin sözlerini al?nt?layacak olursam: Bu kadar çok insanla irtibat halinde olmam?za gerek yok.

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

The danger of academic life, thought Wittgenstein, is that we are encouraged to go on talking even when we know in our hearts that we have nothing valuable to say.

Man findet Spuren aller Wissenschaften in den Sprachen, und umgekehrt vieles in den Sprachen das in den Wissenschaften nützen kann.

It's out of fashion in these decaying times to be a scholar.

Ralph Nimmo carecía de título universitario y se enorgullecía de ello. -Un título [...] es el primer paso de un recorrido calamitoso. Como no quieres desperdiciarlo, pasas al trabajo de graduado y a la investigación doctoral. Terminas por ser un absoluto ignorante de todo, excepto en tu estrechísima especialidad.

Para un profesor, lo lógico es que el escondrijo elegido sea una Universidad

It's out of fashion in these decaying times to be a scholar.

In my day, you could get a faculty job with zero post-doc papers, as in the case of yours truly; but now, the CV of a successful applicant looks like that of a newly minted full professor from olden times.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.

M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.

It turns out one of my dad's best friends was Carl Sagan when I was little. They were both Harvard professors.

He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed animals -- weary of their cages, which were never large enough to begin with -- and they responded sluggishly to the whip. The trapeze artists fell with monotonous regularity into poorly strung nets. The clowns looked hungry. The tent leaked. The crowd was inattentive, shouting incoherently at inappropriate moments. And when the show was over, no one cheered.

Do you see Professoressa Marchese?" "No." His eyes narrowed dangerously as he glanced from one person to another. "Of course, I'm not sure what she looks like these days. Once she became rich and famous, she stopped attending conferences. Too busy to toil in the groves of academia with the rest of us." He added waspishly, "And she's been using that same author photo for at least twenty years. Too vain to let the years show, I suppose.

In 1996, I received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Southern California.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

Academics are only useful when they try to be useless (say, as in mathematics and philosophy) and dangerous when they try to be useful.