I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In my first class at the University of Kentucky, my American Literature professor came in, and the first sentence out of his… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is the most Jewish president we've ever had (except for Rutherford B. Hayes). No president, not even Bill Clinton, has… — Jeffrey Goldberg Copy Share Image
I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I’ve done. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The… — Warren St. John Copy Share Image
The rock is gonna fall on us," he stood and told the class The professor put his chalk down and peered out… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
It's generally sort of sociologically observed that the better educated people are, the more liberal they tend to be, which would suggest… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother - both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother's an English professor and my father is a… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
I want you to take a moment here and write down all the problems that are plaguing you at this moment, from… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most… — John Clute Copy Share Image
Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by… — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential. — Hans Asperger Copy Share Image
Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers,… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education.… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
When you love a woman don't be bothered about what others have said about love, because that is going to be an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
