Even if I had not become a doctor like my parents, I would've done something to do with academics. — Pranitha Subhash Copy Share Image
I not only excelled in academics but also in extra-curricular activities. — Sherlyn Chopra Copy Share Image
“Half of what students learn in school is useful only during examinations.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“To sustain the value of education, students should be respected as much as the teachers.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics. — William Standish Knowles Copy Share Image
I wasn't very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid. — Virat Kohli Copy Share Image
You have to be equal at both - great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame.… — Justin Tuck Copy Share Image
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.” — Amanda Craig Copy Share Image
“Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
More academics should blog, post videos, post audio, post lectures, offer articles and more. You'll enjoy it: I've had threats and blackmail,… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
The old university attitude of 'publish or perish' has changed. Students and academics are realising that institutions such as Imperial College are… — Chris Toumazou Copy Share Image
If you spend your life with academics, when you step outside, you realise there is this huge general readership that is almost… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about… — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘serious’ courses replete with ‘trends ’ and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch… — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
“... I succeeded at math, at least by the usual evaluation criteria: grades. Yet while I might have earned top marks in… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
“Having spent all my life among academics, I can tell you that hearing how wrong they area is about as high on… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing it—they are… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“But I know I didn't love school for school's sake. I had never really been what people call an 'academic' person, nor… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
“I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“The lives of scientists, considered as Lives, almost always make dull reading. For one thing, the careers of the famous and the… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
“The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
