You know who has tenure? The pope has tenure. The Queen of England has tenure. So does Fidel and the communists -… — Ira Carmen 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
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My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton,… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I had all this anxiety about what it meant to be a minority. My professors - the same men who taught me… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
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In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
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I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith. — Allyson Felix Copy Share Image
Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
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There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed. — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The other thing [my psychology professor] said to me was that I was always very mindful of the person who was away… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
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