Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
“If you prefer an “academic life” as a retreat from reality, do not go into biology. This field is for a man… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“It [writing] has enormous meta-cognitive implications. The power is this: That you cannot only think in ways that you could not possibly… — John R. Searle Copy Share Image
In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for… — James Alison Copy Share Image
Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n! — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One of those disturbing tendencies in academic life is that there is a desire on the part of many in the name… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
“People must therefore get away from the idea that serious work is restricted to beating to death a well-defined problem in a… — David Christian Copy Share Image
I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Im a college student who wants to know if there is any way to truly balance academic life with social life? — James Copy Share Image
“Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
The research side of academic life is often viewed from the outside as a solo and, at times, lonely activity. In fact,… — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as… — George Andrew Olah Copy Share Image
I put that part of myself into both Brendan and Evelyn [from The Thorn and the Blossom] - as well as some… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“Tenure was originally invented to protect radical professors, those who challenged the accepted order. But we don't have such people anymore at… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as… — Leroy S Rouner Copy Share Image
When I was 24, I went back to the academic life and did a degree in film and television at Brunel University. — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
“If you prefer an "academic life" as a retreat from reality, do not go into biology. This field is for a man… — Hermann Muller Copy Share Image
Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“The percentage of leading scientists who profess not to believe in a personal God tells us little unless we also know on… — Brad S. Gregory 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
