Academia Quote by Benoit Mandelbrot Download Open image “I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable” — Benoit Mandelbrot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Academia Found Laboratory
Too many years away from academia renders you pretty incompetent at research and teaching. So I had to go back. — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't want to… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image
Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
I was a science student in junior college, but I knew I wouldn't pursue a career in the field. — Mithila Palkar Copy Share Image
While I was at community college, I studied industrial design because I thought maybe I'd be an automotive designer - I grew up in… — Andrew J. Feustel Copy Share Image
I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
In college, if anyone asked me - professors or classmates - I said, 'I want to be a lab tech.' Because I was afraid… — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence of combining… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The extraordinary fact is that the first idea I had which motivated me, that worked, is conjecture, a mathematical idea which may or may… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Most economists, when modeling market behavior, tend to sweep major fluctuations under the rug and assume they are anomalies. What I have found is… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
When I first began studying prices, it wasn't a topic that mathematicians were working on. Purely by accident, I saw a set of data… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“Word spread quickly: The visitor wished to address the scholars. 'What can he want?' they wondered, streaming into the Royal Theater. Attendance was voluntary,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry,… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia… — William Safire Copy Share Image
“The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it because it… — D.E. Navarro Copy Share Image
