Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility… — Chandra Talpade Mohanty Copy Share Image
There's been a 40-year effort on the far right to build up think tanks, academic programs, advocacy groups, to push a particular… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Things may move slow in the academic world, but I continue to move at a pace relative to the urgency of the… — Joseph Curiale Copy Share Image
It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
With a weak and rotting core, you don't have much of a foreign policy. You're discounted at the negotiating table, economically and… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
I think the WikiLeaks releases furnish us with an opportunity to observe the upper reaches of the American status hierarchy in all… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack Copy Share Image
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
“His name was Ed. His nickname was Scrambled Ed. On leaving school he had taken a year out to decide what he… — Matt Padwick Copy Share Image
There was no real strategic decision about editorial tone. It was kind of a write whatever you want to write, and we'll… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
I read reviews of critics I respect and feel I can learn something from. Right now there are a lot of bottom-feeder… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
My literary criticism has become less specifically academic. I was really writing literary history in The New Poetic, but my general practice… — Christian Karlson Stead Copy Share Image
“To be a successful academic, it is not enough merely to have mastered the craft of writing intelligibly. You must also be… — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image
“There are three types of student: The golden student pays and loans, the silver student pays but does not learn, the bronze… — J.C. McKeown Copy Share Image
Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists,… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
There is no clear, commanding body of evidence that students' sustained use of multimedia machines, the Internet, word processing, spreadsheets and other… — Larry Cuban Copy Share Image
The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated… — Kunal Nayyar Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or… — Ad Reinhardt 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
Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit… — Richard Wall Copy Share Image
We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
“If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
If you don't have an academic brain, if you are not interested in maths or science, you are treated as a second-class… — Arlene Phillips Copy Share Image