Academic Quotes
Academic Quote of the day
(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the womens movement did not either.
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.
No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated in an academic environment to be the best actor I could.
It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.
Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.
A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.
Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is how I got a good job in journalism.
The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'.
If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.
Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.
First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.
What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?
The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.
What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.
Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.
There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company.
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.
Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.
If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.
Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.
I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.
We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.
The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.
I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.
