Academic Quote by Noam Chomsky

“libertarians needed to mobilize youthful cadres by influencing academia in new ways. Traditional gifts to universities, he warned, didn’t guarantee enough ideological control. Instead,…

— Jane Mayer

That is the key strength of independent academia: we can speak up in spite of corporate or government interests.

— Zeynep Tufekci

“As a 2015 report by one of the nonprofits connected to Art Pope explained, private academic centers within colleges and universities were ideal devices…

— Jane Mayer

We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe…

— Malcolm Wallop

We need to have much clearer regulations on things like corporate funding of scientific research. Things need to be made explicit which are implicit.

— Noreena Hertz

While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are…

— Henry Giroux

This is why universities, and civil society more generally, are so important for a democracy like ours, founded on a genuine idealism that we…

— Abhijit Banerjee

Large corporations exist to sell us things, and to impose their interests, and I don't understand why we as the research/academic community should just…

— Zeynep Tufekci

“The tech companies are destroying something precious, which is the possibility of contemplation. They have created a world in which we’re constantly watched and…

— Franklin Foer

“in the eyes of critics, the Kochs had not so much enriched as corrupted academia, sponsoring courses that would otherwise fail to meet the…

— Jane Mayer

Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious.

— Mason Cooley

We're now at this place where we can make the evolution of academic content match the evolution of the world.

— Sebastian Thrun