Astronomy Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

— Thomas Carlyle

I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think…

— Galileo Galilei

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form…

— Ken Robinson

Teachers are about the brightest stars in our constellation.

— Peter H. Reynolds

“Strange as it may seem, not all of the great mathematicians have been professors in colleges or universities. Quite a few were soldiers by…

— Eric Temple Bell

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

— Franz Grillparzer

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

— Albert Einstein

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

— Michael Gruber

Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is…

— H. L. Mencken

There are thousands of experts, creators, and practitioners around the world who have valuable knowledge to share but aren't traditional professors.

— Gagan Biyani

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors…

— Josh Radnor

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

— Stephen Leacock