Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
For Christmas, 1939, a girl friend gave me a book token which I used to buy Linus Pauling's recently published Nature of… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
If you are making money writing, you are doing great. If you can support yourself writing, you are a success. I don't… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
The word detox does not appear in the main textbook on cancer or the main medical textbook...the word in medicine refers to… — Ralph W. Moss Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
When people are running up more and more debt for housing, they call that "real wealth." It exposes what's wrong in the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
At first, I felt bad judging an entire state by one county political official, but then I found out Morrison had also… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Scientific truth is not what any one scientist puts forth. It can be that, but it is generally not. It is the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge,… — Robert P. Crease Copy Share Image
I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
I was telling somebody about in grammar school we used to have the duck-and-cover drills where we'd have to go down to… — Adam Reed Copy Share Image
So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
For once, Evie didn’t know what to say. She hadn’t really thought of her uncle as very human. He was more like… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“It was always embarrassing when professors assigned their own books. Even Madeleine, who found all the reading hard going, could tell that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There… — Janusz Korczak Copy Share Image
Someone on Twitter sent me a page from a textbook. It had a picture of a football player next to a picture… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
If you’re going to be an entrepreneur… it’s not all textbook. It’s gut feeling, it’s intuition, it’s a feeling you have that… — Wayne Huizenga Copy Share Image
Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of… — Dean H. Kenyon Copy Share Image
It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
The existing and long-standing use of the word 'evolution' in our state's textbooks has not adversely affected Georgians' belief in the omnipotence… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
They gave high fives to all the players who say like the most obvious textbook answers in the world. It's like after… — Gilbert Arenas Copy Share Image
I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of postgraduate studies… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
For most problems found in mathematics textbooks, mathematical reasoning is quite useful. But how often do people find textbook problems in real… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
As the years progress, what women and men will discover is that the most lasting and rewarding educational experiences come not from… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
There are a lot of very religious scientists around. I think the problem here is that in our school systems, and to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
