Professor Eddington has recently remarked that 'The law that entropy always increases - the second law of thermodynamics - holds, I think,… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
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The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the… — Knute Rockne Copy Share Image
When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
[About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
I was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change… — Ben Rattray Copy Share Image
I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Lee Jordan was finding it difficult not to take sides. 'So — after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating —' 'Jordan!'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been . . . I’m interested in understanding, which is quite… — David Blackwell Copy Share Image
What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You know who has tenure? The pope has tenure. The Queen of England has tenure. So does Fidel and the communists -… — Ira Carmen Copy Share Image
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
There's an African-American professor at a noted Ivy League school who is saying there's three kinds of white people, and only one… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale.… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
When I became a professional and fully understood what was going on, I knew that with all the love and care and… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
“HAPPINESS I ASKED the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
You want to reclaim your country? You got to go back to the first men who started this country, the founding fathers… — Brad Stine Copy Share Image
Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I look at Large Professor as a big influence. I grew up with him and being able to grow up with him… — Mic Geronimo Copy Share Image
I never intended to be a historian of religion. My aim was to become a professor of English Literature in a university,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
From him [Wilard Bennett] I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known! [While… — William M. Fowler Copy Share Image
But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the… — Michael Smith Copy Share Image
I did not intend to be a writer. I first wanted to be a lawyer, like my father. Then I got bit… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
Seminary also introduced me to the historical study of Jesus and Christian origins. I learned from my professors and the readings they… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
Some of the things I liked in my years as a student in workshops: the occasional in-class prompt; discussions about what it… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I actually came to New York when I was 12 and did ballet school for a little while. I was being groomed… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image