No legitimate field of study should be suppressed because…

I would say that I am an academic in politics. I have never abandoned my academic approach to observe reality, independently from the subject…

— Fernando Haddad

If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand…

— Karl Pearson

I'm a very creative person, but that side of me was suppressed because I was academic. I was depressed at school, and I didn't…

— Lapsley

“To be a successful academic, it is not enough merely to have mastered the craft of writing intelligibly. You must also be creative enough…

— Helen Sword

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.

— Wallace Sayre

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the…

— Dean Spade

And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know what the…

— Tim Gunn

Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been…

— James Elkins

“In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us to become…

— Walter Brueggemann

An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is…

— James Paul Gee

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is…

— Joan Robinson

The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally…

— C. Everett Koop

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to…

— Felix Bloch

When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most…

— Sheryl Sandberg