Academic Quotes - page 3

Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism. (Hermann Broch)
There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay. View quote
Ben Goldacre
The university is the place where the pursuit of truth is taught, the rules for learning how to pursue it are explained, and students begin to understand how to evaluate the seriousness of truth. Those are incredibly important lessons, and only the teachers' academic freedom can protect them because there will always be people who disagree with or disapprove of the ideas they are trying to convey. View quote
Joan Wallach Scott
You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion. View quote
Lydia Davis
In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal. View quote
Loretta Young
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry. View quote
Twyla Tharp
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions. View quote
Brad Sherman
Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment. View quote
Bernice Johnson Reagon
I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience. View quote
Bernice Johnson Reagon
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it. (Cheryl Mendelson)
I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic. View quote
Dayo Okeniyi
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. View quote
Donald Johanson
I was always more of an academic than a jock. View quote
Edwin Moses
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all. View quote
Gavin Bryars
My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic. View quote
Gemma Chan
In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman. View quote
George Andrew Olah
I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist. View quote
Harold E. Varmus
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact. View quote
John Henrik Clarke
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. View quote
Kunal Nayyar
Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards. (Louise Slaughter)
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains. View quote
Laurence D. Fink
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused. View quote
Maggie Gallagher
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads. View quote
Michelle Malkin
The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts. View quote
Nadia Ali