Quotes About Academia

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

If nothing is so useless as an "ivory tower" academic theory that goes unused, nothing is so very practical as the theory that works. At

There was a time when academia was society's refuge for the eccentric, brilliant, and impractical. No longer. It is now the domain of professional self-marketers. As for the eccentric, brilliant, and impractical: it would seem society now has no place for them at all.

A los académicos les encanta la teoría de Foucault que identifica conocimiento y poder y que insiste en que la fuerza bruta ya no era un factor primordial en el control social. Les gusta porque les favorece: es la fórmula perfecta para aquellos que quieren verse a sí mismos como políticos radicales aunque se limitan a escribir ensayos que apenas leerán una docena de personas en un ámbito institucional

In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.

It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.

It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.

I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: "It was the footnotes".

Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.

Pour faire de l'histoire, il faut savoir compter.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.