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I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm… — Tom Glazer
Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to… — John C. Baez
A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes. — Norbert Wiener
Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example? — Richard Russo
The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him,… — James F. Cooper
To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work, I don't care if they're… — Jimmy Wales
When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most… — Charles Lyell
I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be. — Stephen Leacock
As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet. — Niall Ferguson
My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university, — Jose Manuel Barroso
But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book… — Fannie Hurst
I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with… — Kathy Reichs
I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that… — Rich Mullins
I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery,… — Mercedes Ruehl
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into… — Robert M. Pirsig
It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could… — John Edensor Littlewood
... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly… — Leonhard Euler
The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students. — Henri Lebesgue
[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny… — George Orwell
A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. . .… — Hugh Nibley
The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in… — Frederick W. Smith
In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history… — Laura Hillenbrand
Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker. — Ogden Nash

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