Academic life Quote by Hermann Muller

Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching…

— Derek Bok

“If you prefer an “academic life” as a retreat from reality, do not go into biology. This field is for a man or woman…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“It [writing] has enormous meta-cognitive implications. The power is this: That you cannot only think in ways that you could not possibly think if…

— John R. Searle

In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.

— Michael Ignatieff

I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for me. If…

— James Alison

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

— Albert Einstein

One of those disturbing tendencies in academic life is that there is a desire on the part of many in the name of open-mindedness…

— Lawrence Summers

“People must therefore get away from the idea that serious work is restricted to beating to death a well-defined problem in a narrow discipline,…

— David Christian

I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now, and there…

— Richard Dawkins

Im a college student who wants to know if there is any way to truly balance academic life with social life?

— James

“Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

The research side of academic life is often viewed from the outside as a solo and, at times, lonely activity. In fact, it is…

— Michael Spence