Academics Quotes - page 4

The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true. (Isaiah Berlin)
Philip Tetlock has just produced a study which suggests we should view expertise in political forecasting--by academics or intelligence analysts, independent pundits, journalists or institutional specialists--with the same skepticism that the well-informed now apply to stockmarket forecasting... It is the scientific spirit with which he tackled his project that is the most notable thing about his book, but the findings of his inquiry are important and, for both reasons, everyone seriously concerned with forecasting, political risk, strategic analysis and public policy debate would do well to read the book. View quote
Philip Tetlock
I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back. View quote
Steven Pinker
Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know. View quote
Steven Pinker
When it comes to computer games, many academics seem to be one step down from judges in their lack of engagement with the real world. View quote
Richard Bartle
Academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The elevation of Foucault to guru status by American and British academics is a tale that belongs to the history of cults. View quote
Camille Paglia
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. View quote
Camille Paglia
In the 1950s, academics forecast that as a result of new technology, by the year 2000 we could have a twenty-hour workweek. View quote
Alan Lightman
It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional advancement goes. (Diana Gabaldon)
People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing. View quote
Joss Whedon
I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why. View quote
Joss Whedon
Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
You know, even big-time academics kind of have groupies. Anyone with any sort of fame. So, like, in your micro-world, or in your niche, you're kind of like a celebrity. View quote
Tucker Max
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created. View quote
Michael Gove
It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case. View quote
Chuck Klosterman
I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out. View quote
Mark Skousen
I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning. View quote
Emma Watson
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics. (Viswanathan Anand)
Ideology, legitimacy, authority: Such topics used to interest academics no end. The mania for quantifying the social sciences and the attendant decline in foreign-language acquisition have changed things. I remember Sovietologists lamenting this trend when I was at school in the 1980s. It's gone much, much further since. What cannot be researched with the proper statistical-numerical methodology is thought beneath serious analysis. On the rare occasions when a non-quantifier takes the microphone at a conference, the Gradgrinds lean back with an indulgent smile: Time for some light relief. View quote
Brian Reynolds Myers
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok? View quote
Thomas Sowell
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists. View quote
Jerry Saltz
The conference was not a lonely effort. None other than Israel's President Moshe Katsav welcomed the attendees. Reflecting the predominant Jewish supremacist views among Israeli and American Jews, the conference was co-sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, the Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress, the Israeli Defense Ministry, the Jewish Agency, the World Zionist Organization, the National Security Center at Haifa University, and the Israeli National Security Council of the Prime Minister's Office. The conference featured fifty speakers: senior government and military officials – including ex- and future prime ministers – university professors, business and media personalities, as well as American Jewish academics and operatives of the US Zionist lobby. View quote
Joseph Massad