Quotes About Academia

Here is where it becomes clear that this kind of fine-grained genetic history is the flip side of the family-history coin. Although genealogy is not widely valued in academia, it meshes perfectly with, and helps explain, social history. These small stories about individual lives reveal the way that individual choices shape the biology and the history of whole populations.

Of all the myths surrounding academic writing, the fallacy of effortless productivity is among the most persistent.

College: A fountain of knowledge where all go to drink.

Boheemlus on kunstniku elus proovilepaneku aeg; see juhatab teda kas akadeemikuellu, haiglasse või surnukuuri.

The republic of letters.

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

We have jerks, assholes, and those who are just dumb... dumb! " "You mean relative to you others," my mother once protested. "No, Mom, dumb like anyone is dumb." "So how did he get a Ph.D.?" "Sitzfleisch, Mom." Sitzfleisch: the ability to sit through any task, to do it again and again until the job is somehow done. Those who give out Ph.D.'s are human too - sooner or later they give in.

I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.

The most urgent task of any college is the transmission of knowledge, pure and simple.

In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.

As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.

I think that my research is valuable to my teaching. I think that the two complement each other and I'm able to present somewhat more stimulating lectures because of what's happening in research, so it's a good complement.

Benjamin Jones at Northwestern University and Benjamin Olken of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Un día tomé el Mercurio de Francia, y andando y leyendo encontré este tema propuesto por la Academia de Dijon para el premio del siguiente año: El progreso de las ciencias y de las artes ¿ha contribuido a corromper o a purificar las costumbres? Así

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.

At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.

I struggled to keep one foot in music and one in academia. I had worked on my Ph.D. for three years full time before I realized Bad Religion could be a legitimate career.

I'm a Benedictine Nun in outlook; I divide my time evenly so one third is spent in academe, another third on writing and the final third on television and radio.

Sometimes it's the educated people that are the stupidest people.

M?drych ludzi jest du?o, du?o mniej od absolwentów wy?szych uczelni.

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