Academic Quote by Alan Dershowitz

“As a rule, the extent to which politics can become the object of free scientific inquiry is a most accurate barometer by which to…

— Masao Maruyama

Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important…

— Donald Kennedy

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

— Anonymous

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right…

— Albert Einstein

I think the universities have co-opted the intellectual, by and large. But there is an emerging intellectual set coming out of Washington think tanks…

— Richard Rodriguez

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

— Immanuel Kant

University research is crucial to our future as a nation.

— Chris Grayling

We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin red labels…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are…

— Henry Giroux

No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other.…

— T. S. Eliot

It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting…

— Vincent Massey

In the sciences particularly the large public universities must and do take an active role in fostering creativity and independence; otherwise the fields will…

— Noam Chomsky