When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at…

“They're not people at all, they're graduate students, there's a difference. They fuck like bunnies and drink like fish and stay up late worrying…

— Kevin Canty

“I began to have deviant thoughts about economic theory while I was a graduate student”

— Richard H. Thaler

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history.…

— Robert Darnton

Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush for not…

— Marvin Olasky

“The other component was to build cadres through political education. Republicans sought out wealthy donors to set up foundations and think tanks as safe…

— Mark Lilla

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't…

— Martin Lewis Perl

“I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't…

— Matthew Desmond

When I was an impoverished graduate student, I would sometimes spend $20 or $30 on a T-shirt or accessory I didn't need or even…

— Siri Hustvedt

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

— Alan Perlis

I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and…

— Francis Collins

“He began to think, here, of local intellectuals such as the pulavar and of his friends in the Readers’ Circle, as keys to this…

— Mark P. Whitaker

I remember my days as a graduate student at Stanford, within any leading university, a very active Israeli support, for Israel, Jews fighting for…

— Ehud Barak

“Bulgarian professor named John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, who were building a machine that was intended to automate the solution…

— Neal Stephenson