Quotes About Academia

I'd done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.

the most eminent intellectuals are those whose papers end up being cited the most; their ideas are "parents" to the greatest number of "offspring." Their ideas make it possible for other people to make their own statements.

Pleši s onim tko te pozvao. Taj klišej koji su mi roditelji ?esto ponavljali ne odnosi se samo na maturalnu ve?er. On bi trebao biti mantra u poslovnim i akademskim krugovima, ali i u ku?i. On nas podsje?a na lojalnost i poštovanje.

Postoje akademske formalnosti koje se ne mogu zapostaviti, ?ak i kad je ?ovjek zauzet drugim stvarima, kao što je pokušaj da ostane živ.

In politics, the players jockey for power; in academia, they play for vanity, a far more compelling instinct that could conjure far more vindictive punishment.

People in academia and industry are not accustomed to people who have long lapses in their careers.

I had gotten a master's degree in administration supervision with it in mind that I would some day be a professor, then get a doctorate degree and move up and eventually be president of a university.

In the early 60s, you read your essays to your supervisor rather than hand them in. I was both lazy and clever, and realised I didn't need to write essays at all, I could simply talk with some notes in front of me.

It's deplorable that academia should prostitute itself, but there it is. Not even Harvard is above it. In fact, Harvard least of all, with that ludicrous delusion of self-importance that makes every Harvard professor feel he's a public intellectual, qualified to comment on issues far beyond his expertise.

Among their many interesting results was the discovery that religiosity is indeed negatively correlated with education (more highly educated people are less likely to be religious). Religiosity is also negatively correlated with interest in science and (strongly) with political liberalism.

For all I know, entire scientific reputations may have been built on the work of students and colleagues! I don't know what can be done to combat this dishonesty.

A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution.

A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution. —THOMAS JEFFERSON

obscurantism in an academic subject expands to fill the vacuum of its intrinsic simplicity.

Once again, academia and the mass media are straining every muscle to suppress debate.

Younger artists are seedlings. Their early work resembles thicket and underbrush, even weeds. The halls of academia, with their preference for lofty intellectual theorems, do little to support the life of the forest floor.

It was getting to be so ridiculous, she was surprised there weren't special schools for the boring, average children.

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.