Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification…

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

— Erwin Chargaff

William," the professor said, softly, "what now is your weapon?"…"Truth," he whispered, his voice rasping. He cleared his throat. "Truth is my sword." …"And…

— Bryan Davis

I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's…

— Camille Paglia

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

— Erich Segal

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

— Eric Allin Cornell

The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.

— Dan Payne

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice.…

— George Papandreou

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth…

— Allan Bloom

“Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would…

— Dean Wesley Smith

I'm not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety. I have a master's from Yale drama,…

— Adam Richman

Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But…

— Barack Obama

“Like a delicatessen owner who sells rancid meat and then blames his business failure on the vulgarization of customer taste, humanities professors account for…

— Gary Saul Morson

Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given…

— Carl Jung

The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his…

— Andrew Dickson White