Quote by Thomas Sowell Download Open image ““The world's first university chair in engineering was founded in Glasgow in 1840.2'x”” — Thomas Sowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The first race between the Oxford and Cambridge universities was held in 1829, using professional watermen to coxswain their boats.” — H.L. Fourie Copy Share Image
One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company… — David Milne Copy Share Image
“Whatever the future may hold for Nature, its past—indeed, its very existence—owes much to religious and political discontent. In the nineteenth century, academics at… — Henry Gee Copy Share Image
When we started in the late 70s, I don't think it's unfair to say Glasgow was on its knees. It was the end of… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.' — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“stability. It is often noted that, of all existing institutions in the West, higher education is one of most enduring. Oxford University, the longest… — Cathy N. Davidson Copy Share Image
Some of the most fundamental beliefs in our world view have evolved from British universities. — Gavin Williamson Copy Share Image
I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that… — Aaron Klug Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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