“While it may be hard to live with generalizations, it is inconceivable to live without them.” — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science. — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
“Half of what students learn in school is useful only during examinations.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off. — John Hewson Copy Share Image
I wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate. — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that. — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for… — James Alison Copy Share Image
I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic? — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60… — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension.… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Therefore, the task of all Christian scholarship- not just biblical studies- is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Someone who thinks up a new theory is the last person who should be trusted with the job of testing it. A… — Judith Rich Harris Copy Share Image
The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
One Spirit Medicine allows you to experience communion with Spirit and understand the workings of creation. This understanding is not academic or… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I've come to the conclusion that it's all about fear- fear that your kid won't come out on top, be a success.… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success. — Robert Sternberg Copy Share Image
The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received. — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas. — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague. — William McKeen Copy Share Image
The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all. — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent. — Eddie Huang Copy Share Image
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