When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When it comes to public school education, we have been unwilling to measure our results. We've been unwilling to pay based on… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law… — Dick Thornburgh Copy Share Image
I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of… — Daniel Drezner Copy Share Image
There was only really one time that I had a substantive interaction with the president [Barak Obama] directly, and that was in… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I know I made plenty of mistakes in my tenure. But one of the things that you learn is to be very… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification… — John Frohnmayer Copy Share Image
I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply… — Bev Perdue Copy Share Image
Certainly, if we believe in democracy and democratic systems, when [Benazir Bhutto] failed to pass any legislation, really, at all in her… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
“Tenure was originally invented to protect radical professors, those who challenged the accepted order. But we don't have such people anymore at… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
In fact, during her [Hillary Clinton] tenure as Secretary of State, total arms exports from the United States in terms of the… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label. — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image