Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
“In some quarters, and particularly among those who comment on these matters in in political circles or in the media or the… — Stefan Collini Copy Share Image
In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others. — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
Yes, academia is often in the brainwashing business and revisionist history is alive and well. — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
Too many years away from academia renders you pretty incompetent at research and teaching. So I had to go back. — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
“Have I mentioned the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, and the collapse of a section of the Bay Bridge, or the Oakland… — Robert Appelbaum Copy Share Image
“Oh, maybe a little treasure for the more rabid Incunks, the collectors and the academics who maintained their positions in large part… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“...there was an impatience in her tone, almost an accusation, as she added that academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Many young people strangely boast of being "motivated"; they re-request apprenticeships and permanent training. It's up to them to discover what they're… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
It is extraordinarily difficult, even in academia, to find a job that will let you do whatever you want with your time.… — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
“Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“She took a deep breath. "Let me begin again." If this girl wanted to play ball in front of her department head,… — Red Tash Copy Share Image
The 'inability to have a dialogue' is increasingly the norm in academia. Conservative thought is not just unwelcome, oftentimes it is banished… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image