A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite. — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
One should engage himself in self study to refine his intelligence and to acquire knowledge. — Atharva Veda Copy Share Image
Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Most academic battles involve space or faculty appointments and promotions.” — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“This man was a keeper and I was indeed willing to make him mine" - Eliana Richards” — Jessica Girke Copy Share Image
Schools serving disadvantaged students need more time to help these students catch up and gain the core academic skills they will need… — Chris Gabrieli Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
Anyone writing a picture-book biography of Lincoln has a different set of responsibilities from someone writing a biography for sixth-graders, say, or… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
I've always loved doing research. I remember doing a research project on the Babylonian numeral system in the eighth grade and thinking,… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
I think for what success looks like for me, it is a world in which you can look at the achievement scores,… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
Coaches have got to be given rank within the university so that you can't fire a coach unless you go through an… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
“What is the difference between my view and the classical Christian perspective? I am convinced that there are not multiple comings and… — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
During the latency years, American children need experiences that promote academic talents, a sense of responsibility, and most important, a belief that… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects"… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
I've worked in the factories of this land, and I've thought freely and creatively. And I think that that has greatly enriched… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again… — Robin Winks Copy Share Image
“To be a successful academic, it is not enough merely to have mastered the craft of writing intelligibly. You must also be… — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image
With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
My literary criticism has become less specifically academic. I was really writing literary history in The New Poetic, but my general practice… — Christian Karlson Stead Copy Share Image
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