I was an American Studies student at Berkeley as an undergraduate, and pretty much as a graduate student, too. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student. — James Cronin Copy Share Image
“I began to have deviant thoughts about economic theory while I was a graduate student” — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems… — Frank Press Copy Share Image
My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in… — Tammy Duckworth Copy Share Image
I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“To ensure a well-motivated participant, Pfungst rewarded Clever Hans with a small piece of bread, carrot or sugar each time he responded… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student, I actually took a course in development economics and I thought it was the most boring… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
“They're not people at all, they're graduate students, there's a difference. They fuck like bunnies and drink like fish and stay up… — Kevin Canty Copy Share Image
I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
For me, I was always the only woman in my cohort, first as a mechanical engineering undergraduate student, then as a chemical… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember my days as a graduate student at Stanford, within any leading university, a very active Israeli support, for Israel, Jews… — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
When I was an impoverished graduate student, I would sometimes spend $20 or $30 on a T-shirt or accessory I didn't need… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third… — Amar Bose Copy Share Image
When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“This Land is mostly white space on the map...which is how it should be; I'll leave more detailed map making to those… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He began to think, here, of local intellectuals such as the pulavar and of his friends in the Readers’ Circle, as keys… — Mark P. Whitaker Copy Share Image
“Not long after the book came out I found myself being driven to a meeting by a professor of electrical engineering in… — John Holt Copy Share Image
“In the late '80s and early '90s, the media used a few small studies of babies born of cocaine-addicted mothers to convince… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I had in effect been thrown out of graduate school because I was a lousy graduate student, and I had to find… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Much is at stake. In giving Hochschild its Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award in 2008, the American Historical Association claimed that King Leopold’s… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
“Being accused of microaggression can be a harrowing experience. Manhattan Institute Fellow Heather Mac Donald relates in City Journal how an incident… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
“[Paul Olum] was president of the University of Oregon when he heard of [Richard] Feynman’s death. He realized that the young genius… — Jame Gleick quoting Paul Olum Copy Share Image
“I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“The other component was to build cadres through political education. Republicans sought out wealthy donors to set up foundations and think tanks… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“One of my greatest fears is family decline.There’s an old Chinese saying that “prosperity can never last for three generations.” I’ll bet… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
“Gloria told Maria the whole story of her adoption by the time she was seven years old. She had adopted Maria after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and elaborates on polemically in her 1978 book, Silences, in a chapter first delivered as a talk in 1967. As Olsen clearly saw it for women, my not being a writer was a material…” quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2ab/shirley-geok-lin-lim-3190_being-a-woman_irony-has-everything-to-do-with-what-til_1284033.jpg)
![“[Paul Olum] was president of the University of Oregon when he heard of [Richard] Feynman’s death. He realized that the young genius he had met at Princeton had become a part of him, impossible to extricate. “My wife died three years ago, also of cancer,” he said. ... I think about her a lot. I…” quote by Jame Gleick quoting Paul Olum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/807/jame-gleick-quoting-paul-olum_graduate-student_paul-olum-was-president-of-the-universit_898657.jpg)
