Academic Quotes

460 Academic quotes by 399 unique authors

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students. — Vivek Wadhwa
I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going… — Natasha Trethewey
Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history… — Jessi Klein
I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now, and there is… — Richard Dawkins
Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about… — Richard Dawkins
Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern… — Tim Jackson
Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our… — Natalie Babbitt
In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study… — Noam Chomsky
There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there… — Eric Kandel
The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the… — Judith Butler
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will… — Laurence D. Fink
No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives… — Dennis Prager
Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over Western schools from… — Dennis Prager
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests. — Jill Lepore
Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist. — Cameron Russell
I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling. — Malcolm Gladwell
My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books, and when you… — Harry Lloyd
Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are… — Clayton Christensen
A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function and memory skills,… — Matt Cartwright
In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with. — Michael Ignatieff

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