Dismal Quote by Thomas Carlyle

persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science… Coining “Dismal Science” as…

— Thomas Carlyle

Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the…

— Yvor Winters

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

“Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z…”

— Aldous Huxley

“how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.”

— Daniel Keyes

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

— Albert Einstein

“Strange as it may seem, not all of the great mathematicians have been professors in colleges or universities. Quite a few were soldiers by…

— Eric Temple Bell

...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

There are thousands of experts, creators, and practitioners around the world who have valuable knowledge to share but aren't traditional professors.

— Gagan Biyani

Academics are, on average, pussies.

— David Buss

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly,…

— Simon Newcomb

At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.

— Robert B. Laughlin