Professors Quotes

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Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead. — Jedediah Bila
I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does. — Barry McCaffrey
Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year. — Derek Bok
Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught. — Derek Bok
Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they… — Derek Bok
Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking… — Derek Bok
Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate… — Derek Bok
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
We are not shooting enough professors — Vladimir Lenin
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
Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter. — Jules de Goncourt
I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced… — Tibor Fischer
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

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