Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost. — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“those with the least training (graduate students) were just as accurate as the fully trained ones (paid pros)” — Michael Lewis 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
A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.' — Jack Horner 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
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
“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
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if… — Heather Wilson Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, that meant that the Braekbills student body was quite the psychological menagerie. Carrying that much onboard cognitive processing power… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time… — Elizabeth Warren 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
“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
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
Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate… — Michio Kaku 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
I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students… — John Lewis Gaddis 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
[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
It's difficult to get a job and people stay in school longer because they're employed as teaching assistants or instructors by their… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Copy Share Image
“his is exactly what I mean about rabbit holes. I love them. I don’t find them a waste of time at all.… — Barbara Browning Copy Share Image
“{Recalling Professor Ira Remsen 's remarks (1895) to a group of his graduate students about to go out with their degrees into… — Anonymous 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
“Frankly, the overwhelming majority of academics have ignored the data explosion caused by the digital age. The world’s most famous sex researchers… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“When I came back I joined a black church in Oakland and that made me feel more at home, a bit like… — Mark Juergensmeyer 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
Today, the Americans have developed a new culture in science based on the slavery of graduate students. Now, graduate students of American… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
I tell my graduate students [at Bard College], ‘There are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through sustainable business.’… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students,… — Rebecca Goldstein 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
Very few parents keep up with who the top professors are or whose classes their kids are taking, partially because most undergraduates… — Andrew Yang Copy Share Image
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