Department Quote by David Horowitz

“Life is not divisible into the departments of a university, nor is our understanding of life greatly increased by standard research practices, which tend…

— Nora Bateson

University research is crucial to our future as a nation.

— Chris Grayling

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about…

— Thomas Sowell

Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the…

— Tony Attwood

Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding…

— Eric Hoffer

Modern science developed in the context of western religious thought, was nurtured in universities first established for religious reasons, and owes some of its…

— Kenneth R. Miller

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

— Anonymous

I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm…

— Noam Chomsky

Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at the height…

— Noam Chomsky

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture…

— Steven Pinker

“If the 1970s had been the time of radical theories, then the 1980s were the time when politics began increasingly to replace professionalism in…

— David Horowitz

A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.

— Jerry Falwell, Jr