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410 Professor quotes by 301 unique authors

I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis… — Jane Goodall
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and… — Alfred Nobel
The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and… — Arthur Compton
[Professor Bragg asserts that] In sodium chloride there appear to be no molecules represented by NaCl. The equality in number of sodium and chlorine atoms… — Henry Edward Armstrong
I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford. — G. H. Hardy
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type… — Marshall McLuhan
For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by… — Adolf Hitler
I am my own Universe, I my own Professor. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to… — Tom Bodett
I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and… — Eliza Dushku
My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics. — Eliza Dushku
I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday. — Darren Criss
My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The… — Michael Cerveris
It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship. — Juan Cole
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. — Eric Allin Cornell
Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned… — Peter Diamandis
But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from… — Warwick Davis
One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a… — Charles Frazier
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical… — Peter Agre
My brother is nine years older than I am. He's a psychology professor, I'm an actor, and so we look at life in two different… — Matt Czuchry
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that. — Dave Hickey
I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976. — Robert Huber
I like the Stooges. You know what movie I saw that I sort of discovered late was Jerry Lewis in 'The Nutty Professor'. I really… — Mike Judge
Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The… — Donald Kagan

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