Inspirational Quote by Stephen Leacock

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

— Karl von Frisch

I sometimes say I am the extinguished professor, because what I'd really like to be is the postdoc, to have that kind of thinking.…

— Sydney Brenner

The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were…

— Camille Paglia

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

— Daniel Kahneman

“The problem, dear professor, is that you wanted someone who could be made intelligent but still be kept in a cage and displayed when…

— Daniel Keyes

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

— Elizabeth McGovern

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

— Erich Segal

...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education…

— Horace Mann

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

— Randall Jarrell

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form…

— Ken Robinson