Quotes About University

Civil rights is just one battlefield in the real war of the left, which is the war against America itself. The big guns of this war are directed from the centers of intellect on the high ground of the university culture, where tenured radicals have created an anti-American ideology and forced it on the nation's youth through the curriculum.

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

Over time I grew accustomed to the sight of a friend's colostomy bag and came to think of Kent State as something of an I.V. League university. The state would pay your board if you roomed with

Considering that the modern and contemporary literature taught in most universities is largely bleak, cynical, morbid, pessimistic, misanthropic dogmatism, often written by suicidal types who sooner or later kill themselves with alcohol or drugs, or shotguns, Professor Takuda was a remarkably cheerful man.

Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the hard sciences. As a working environment, the rest of academia is a sewer of irrationality, hate mongering, envy, and self-interest. I'm getting out the moment I earn my twenty-five-year pension package, and then I'm going to write novels...

History Of Indian Philosophy, Vol. I, by Prof. Surendranath DasGupta (Cambridge University Press, 1922).

JC was good for me. I had a coach who kept me into things and thinking positive. It was good basketball, but more than that it prepared me for the academic scene at a university.

I've been on campuses all my life.

I never thought about becoming an actor. Even when I applied for university, I didn't choose theater as a major to become an actor.

A football scholarship to the University of North Texas, where he'd stayed on to earn a PhD.

The Growth and Structure of His Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968)

Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, edited by Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970)

Another outstanding work dealing with the rationality of science is Marcello Pera's The Discourses of Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994

of Kuhn's and other theories of scientific change, see H. E. LeGrand, Drifting Continents and Shifting Theories (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)

Drawing out Leviathan: Dinosaurs and the Science Wars (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001).

The essay "Commensurability, Comparability, Communicability" (abbreviated here as CCC) is found in the collection of Kuhn's writings The Road since Structure (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).

Latour examines Pasteur and his influence in The Pasteurization of France (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988), translated by Alan Sheridan and John Law.

John Hedley Brooke's Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991

A work I failed to mention earlier that gives an excellent overview of the history of evolution, including evolutionary synthesis, is Peter J. Bowler's Evolution: The History of an Idea, third edition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003

There are several excellent general histories of scientific method. One of the most popular introductory-level books is A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, by John Losee, third edition (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

The shelves were bowed under the weight of textbooks. There were old framed prints on the walls, and a blackboard with the single word CHARACTER on it. University paperwork was piled on the window ledge, all but blacking out the bottom two panes. The smell in the room was that of intellect gone awry.

Poor girl. She would change. The idealism would vanish once she saw how hypocritical the whole game was, and what luxuries lay outside university. When she left, she'd want it all: the executive job in London, the flat, car, salary, wine-bar. She would chuck it all in for a slice of pie.