Professors Quotes

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.

Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The latter are called professors.

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

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

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.

Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.

Professor,” Harry gasped. “Your bird — I couldn’t do anything — he just caught fire —

And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle - Flint alongside her - poke him in the eye, Angelina - it was a joke, professor, it was a joke.

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead.

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to X.

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.

In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than a pound).

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.

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

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.

Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.

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 of life, another form of life.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.

Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University.

I've learned so much from my professors and have been fortunate to have had so many good ones, including Frederick and Steven Barthelme, Edward Carey, Jim Magnuson, and Elizabeth McCracken.

Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

I'm afraid," Professor Piper said, "afraid that you're never going to discover what you're truly capable of. That you won't get to see-that I won't get to see-any of the wonder that's inside of you.

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

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

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s.

And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.

Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems.

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

I want to be an activist professor.

I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.