Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.

Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They…

— Portia Doubleday

“The Nazis had been one thing. The communists were another. But now there were academics crawling all over the palace.”

— Magnus Flyte

Academics are not necessarily nice people.

— Noam Chomsky

“Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science.”

— Amit Kalantri

Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone's granny…

— Simon Schama

I excelled in my academics. But, I also was a cheerleader and I ran track.

— Rubi Rose

“I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic colleagues, she…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“The lives of scientists, considered as Lives, almost always make dull reading. For one thing, the careers of the famous and the merely ordinary…

— Peter B. Medawar

At home, our focus has always been academics and playing.

— Vicky Kaushal

If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher…

— Darell Hammond

“Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I've always been the type that's more about academics and technology.

— Doug Baldwin

We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is…

— George M. Whitesides

“There have always been ignorant people, but they haven't always had college degrees to make them unaware of their ignorance. Some people imagine that…

— Thomas Sowell

“... I succeeded at math, at least by the usual evaluation criteria: grades. Yet while I might have earned top marks in geometry and…

— Jennifer Ouellette