Professors Quotes

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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
Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear. — Henry Edward Armstrong
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
I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images… — John Hench
In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be… — Donald A. Norman
[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
Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books,… — Ralph Nader
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
Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys. — John Henry Carver
There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side… — W. Somerset Maugham
Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk? That way, when you want to… — Jack Handey
If you want to be the most popular person in your class, whenever the professor pauses in his lecture, just let out a big snort… — Jack Handey

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