Professors Quotes · Page 4

It turns out one of my dad's best friends was Carl Sagan when I was little. They were both Harvard professors.

— David Grinspoon

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university,

— Jose Manuel Barroso

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

— Umberto Eco

[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.

— Daniel Finkelstein

For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to…

— Ian Mcewan

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is…

— Noam Chomsky

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my…

— Alan Dershowitz

Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent,…

— Susan B. Anthony

Someone's always calling for my resignation. It's nothing new. It's something that's been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last…

— Alan Chambers

When I went to the Studio Museum in Harlem, there was a type of freedom that existed where I didn't have to…

— Kehinde Wiley

The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to…

— Alfred Nobel

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

— Clayton M. Christensen

Show me a Professor of Education, especially a Professor of E-learning, who lectures, and I'll show you a hypocrite who doesn't read…

— Donald Clark

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and…

— Richard Mentor Johnson

I've never seen a professor of religion on television before, and I thought that was fascinating. The creative tension with spirituality vs.…

— Tim Daly

A prejudice may be an unreasoned judgment, he [Hibben] pointed out, but an unreasoned judgment is not necessarily an illogical judgment. ...…

— Richard M. Weaver

It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like…

— William Faulkner

Lord Maccon, being Lord Maccon and good at such things, then changed, right there in the Thames, from dog-paddling wolf to large…

— Gail Carriger

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The…

— David Horowitz

It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That…

— Henry Rosovsky

When I studied computer science at Duke University in the first half of the 1980s, I had professors who treated women differently…

— Melinda Gates

I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication"…

— Camille Paglia

When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

— Clarence Day

I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.

— Robert Huber

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

— Tony Campolo

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

— Dave Hickey

Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University.

— Malcolm X

We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh

— James Joyce

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

— Eric Allin Cornell

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

— Pete Seeger

The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor…

— John Edensor Littlewood

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

— Cate Marvin

To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

— Sarah Palin

If you show a poetry professor your shiny new multiple choice teaching technology, he will invite you to exit his office.

— Andrew Ng

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

— Michael Hudson

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

— Derek Bok

I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email.

— Endre Szemeredi

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

— G. H. Hardy