Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
In my experience, academia is a World War 1 kind of a domain, and I do my best to avoid all that… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormous tapestry of existence. Where did our universe… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.” — Amanda Craig Copy Share Image
For 35 years, Frank Cross held one of the most prestigious chairs in academia: the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
“What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock. "Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government. — Neil Steinberg Copy Share Image
When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
“There was no room for dust devils in the laws of physics, as least in the rigid form in which they were… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Let's turn now to the citation of authors, found in other books and missing in yours. The solution to this is very… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“The slow maturation of genuine creativity looks like laziness to a committee. Wallace Stevens was forty-three when his first book appeared. Robert… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
“In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus” — Isaiah Hankel Copy Share Image
The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The fate of the young man in his headphones, who faced a jail cell that very night, did not seem such a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
