Average Quote by J. Frank Dobie Download Open image “The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.” — J. Frank Dobie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Average Bones College Education Fear Graveyard Inspirational Learning Teaching Technology Teenager Thesis Transference University education
“The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.” — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D. — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
A thesis has to be presentable... but don't attach too much importance to it. If you do succeed in the sciences, you will do… — Paul Ehrenfest Copy Share Image
Biological anthropology tends to focus on skeletons because that's what is often left behind in the ground, but I am a whole-body anatomist, I'm… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
“It is the kind of place where human skeletons might sink into the soil undisturbed and unmourned.” — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
“The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest of the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Aside from criminology, I’d say archaeology has the highest body count.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If you're an archeologist, I bet it's real embarrassing to put together a skull from a bunch of ancient bone fragments, but then it… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Good bones are important, so it is wise to go slowly and get your plan right before launching into a vital project. — Rosemary Verey Copy Share Image
When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation,… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
“The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.” — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
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The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and… — Richard G. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
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So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image