Professors Quotes

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In college I took a class from a professor who changed my whole life. I can't really remember what his name was, or what the… — Bill Ervin
It is hard to be an apprentice to an unfriendly professor, or even one whose warmth or tolerance wears thin when the going gets hard… — Robert Audi
One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal… — Robert Audi
In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than… — Joshua Kendall
If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could… — Tom Wigley
One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right… — Eula Biss
I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film. — Derek Magyar
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had… — David Eddings
Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may… — Edwin Boring
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet. — Jeffery Deaver
Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. — Isaac Newton
In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the… — Shirin Ebadi
Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology. — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, 'If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve a… — Charley Reese
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
I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with his… — Richard Rorty

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