Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical… — Tony Wagner Copy Share Image
Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus,… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Yes, the academic world is screwed up, and there is nothing you can do about it. But don't worry about that. Just… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
If a manager asks an academic consultant what to do and that consultant answers, then the consultant should be fired. No academic… — James G. March Copy Share Image
The landscape in academic science is traditionally male-dominated. Women didn't always see themselves there - there was a lack of role models,… — Kirsty Duncan Copy Share Image
We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about… — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If you're in the business world, that's what's expected: You should go bust and then start again on something else. So it's… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will… — Nel Noddings Copy Share Image
Whether it's a professional, academic keeping people out by using certain mystifying language, or technologists presenting their work as incredibly complicated, no… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we… — Brad Sherman Copy Share Image
An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles.… — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
I almost flunked first grade and also the second, third, forth, and fifth; but my younger brother was in the grade behind… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors… — Samuel J. Palmisano Copy Share Image
The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held,… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I take the academic education as seriously as the physical education. That's why I tell parents that the schools can't do it… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
When we faced a possibility here in New York of chemical and biological attack, three days after September 11, I called in… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
One of those disturbing tendencies in academic life is that there is a desire on the part of many in the name… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
A good rule of thumb is as follows: If the numbers come from somebody wearing a tie (Wall Street economist or analyst,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
As I talk about strengths and weaknesses in academic economics, one interesting fact you are entitled to know is that I never… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When I was at seminary in my early twenties, one of my teachers said to me, "You're going to have to decide.… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus,… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
I checked the emails the same theme that I could summarize them. "Rush, whatever you're talking about here - [Donald] Trump, you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
The two things that will defeat a lot of young actors are fear of failure and lack of preparation. With acting, I… — Tom Selleck Copy Share Image
Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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