I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government. — Neil Steinberg 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
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“I don't like exams. I don't like giving exams, and I don't like meetings.” — Mark W. Moffett Copy Share Image
Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber. — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life. — Anton Chekhov 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
I make films, and festivals, museums, and academia are embracing the work. It will be heard. It's bound to happen because cinema… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching. — Paul Smith 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
All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have… — Budd Hopkins Copy Share Image
I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself,… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“Adjunct teachers are the professorial equivalent of the migrant Mexican farm laborers hired during harvest. If you can get a good contract… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought… — William Safire Copy Share Image
“He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed animals -- weary of their… — Susan Hubbard Copy Share Image
At 17, I decided I wanted to be a full-time athlete but my parents weren't so sure. So we agreed that if… — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
“Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“Word spread quickly: The visitor wished to address the scholars. 'What can he want?' they wondered, streaming into the Royal Theater. Attendance… — Laini Taylor 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
“So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“When we think of discrimination, these are types of ugly, virulent prejudice that we think about. But John faced a much different… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Will his work survive? Alas, I worry it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication"… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“I still feel glad to emphasize the duty, the defining characteristic of the pure scientist—probably to be found working in universities—who commit… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
In my opinion humanity is being prayed upon, I mean as a species. Not only by old satanic families like the Rothschilds… — Sean Young 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
People in academia and industry are not accustomed to people who have long lapses in their careers. — Mildred Dresselhaus Copy Share Image
College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it. — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger. — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia. — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized. — Gad Saad 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
