Every year, I have my graduate students read the great works of history, from classical times to the present. They gamely tackle… — H. W. Brands 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
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
Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to… — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
“She has decided all university campuses are alike- the sense of possibility and stasis. She thinks this too: all graduate students, if… — Danzy Senna 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, I actually took a course in development economics and I thought it was the most boring… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
“he had been trying for years to get his graduate students to use such playful investigation rather than rote learning and mechanical… — Stuart Brown Copy Share Image
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Gabriel slowly raised his head and stared at her. Ten graduate students inhaled as one and began to move backward in their… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing… — Antony Hewish 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
“Syrian-born graduate student in Wisconsin who became biological father of Jobs and Mona Simpson, later a food and beverage manager at the… — Walter Isaacson 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
“And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to… — Lev Grossman 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
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
“A very loud popping sound echoed across the seminar room. Each graduate student gazed in complete and utter shock as they realized… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I… — Marilyn Hacker 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
It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to 'Non-Cooperative… — John Forbes Nash, Jr 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
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
