A doctrine-teaching, character-building university, the Brigham Young University is dedicated to the building of character and faith, for character is higher than… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
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I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite… — Halton Arp Copy Share Image
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I was a regular kind of academic music student. I was at Juilliard. I had to study all the contemporary music of… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins,… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
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My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
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There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have three older brothers, so they… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
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This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal… — Noah Cicero Copy Share Image
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should… — David Mamet 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
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I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
What I want you to do is just take it as it is. Don't think too much. If you get involved with… — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
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