Thesis Quotes

108 Thesis quotes by 101 unique authors

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to… — Andrei Sakharov
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
A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of… — Gerhard Richter
The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science… — Benjamin Disraeli
The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted,… — Clifford Allbutt
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does… — Upton Sinclair
It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put… — Andrew Greeley
I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia,… — Jon Ronson
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing… — Megan Abbott
History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very feature being… — I. Bernard Cohen
The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks. — Anthony Giddens
I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me… — Jim Jarmusch
The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that… — Ralph Barton Perry
It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and… — Alan Woods
When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was… — Francis Ford Coppola
Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962… — Richard Ernst
The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward. — Helen Hunt
I've always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn't know how to organise… — Michael Moore
My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology. She… — Rick Riordan
Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will… — Pat Robertson
And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger… — Hjalmar Schacht
The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had… — Nate Silver
My god! people say. You have so much self-control! And later: My god. You're so, so sick. When people say this, they turn their heads,… — Marya Hornbacher
Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses. — Stephen King
I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis. — Kurt Vonnegut

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