To be an outspoken professor in academia is a very dangerous proposition. — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government. — Neil Steinberg Copy Share Image
Too many years away from academia renders you pretty incompetent at research and teaching. So I had to go back. — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“A dean is the conductor of an orchestra made up entirely of composers.” — Mark William Roche Copy Share Image
People in academia and industry are not accustomed to people who have long lapses in their careers. — Mildred Dresselhaus Copy Share Image
I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Only in the detached from reality world of goofy Hollywood and modern academia could a mass murderer like Che Guevara be turned… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
One of our main objectives is to restore meritocracy within research and academia, where cronyism is also widespread. We also want to… — Beppe Grillo Copy Share Image
“The path of specialization leads away from the ordinary and concrete acts of understanding in terms of which man actually lives his… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Because of the mainstreaming of academia's victimhood culture, we are now in a place where we place more value on being a… — Andy Ngo Copy Share Image
“Too much time in academia can actually do you harm. There are a lot of skills that are useful in academia that… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
Like many in academia and in the development industry, I am among globalization's greatest beneficiaries - those who are able to sell… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
“Many young people strangely boast of being "motivated"; they re-request apprenticeships and permanent training. It's up to them to discover what they're… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“So modern scientists are the pious cult of yesteryear?” "Exactly. Their dated dogma of immediacy and parsimony, while digestible, is ultimately untrue… — Larry Fort Copy Share Image
My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman.… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, that meant that the Braekbills student body was quite the psychological menagerie. Carrying that much onboard cognitive processing power… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these people who is sour about academia. I'm very lucky not to be in academia, but I am… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
In my opinion humanity is being prayed upon, I mean as a species. Not only by old satanic families like the Rothschilds… — Sean Young Copy Share Image
Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication"… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Will his work survive? Alas, I worry it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“When we think of discrimination, these are types of ugly, virulent prejudice that we think about. But John faced a much different… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I still feel glad to emphasize the duty, the defining characteristic of the pure scientist—probably to be found working in universities—who commit… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“Originated by the green leading-edge in academia, this aperspectival madness of “no truth” leapt out of the universities, and morphed into an… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber. — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
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