Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise…

Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely…

— Albert Einstein

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority…

— Richard M. Nixon

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

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

— Alan Dershowitz

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture…

— Steven Pinker

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision…

— David Horowitz

...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says stupid things,…

— Paul Krugman

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with…

— George Andrew Olah

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's…

— Jerry A. Coyne

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background.…

— Kerry Washington

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.

— Albert Einstein

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right…

— Albert Einstein

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 the universe.…

— Albert Einstein

[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been quite enough.

— Albert Einstein

Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.

— Albert Einstein