Faculty Quotes

• I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Government, Boston, People

  "Goldstein: How Universities Killed Free Speech" by Lorrie Goldstein, torontosun.com. November 22, 2017.

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• Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Mean, Exercise, Men

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• Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

  Henri Bergson

  Reality, Intellect, Apprehension

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• In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Intelligence, Tools

  "Creative Evolution".

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• It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely mathematical skill but a sensitivity to the relative importance of different factors and a critical, almost an artistic, faculty in the selection of behaviour equations which are reasonable, tentative hypotheses in explaining the behaviour of actual economies.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Order, Skills, Different

  "The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, pp. 16-17, 1958.

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• Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to do so. And if this inference is unquestionable, then is the one above deduced from it-that humanity must in the end become completely adapted to its conditions-unquestionable also. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity.

  Herbert Spencer

  Science, Humanity, Growth

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.79

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• There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far allow to state, as I said before, that the great regions of the mind correspond to the great regions of the brain.

  Paul Broca

  Brain, Mind, Groups

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• A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

  John Ciardi

  Inspirational, Education, Teenager

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• Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

  William James

  Creativity, Mean, Science

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Talking, Mind, Saying Nothing

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• For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.

  Edward Thorndike

  Animal, Looks, Development

  Edward Lee Thorndike (1898). “Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals”

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• We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

  Thornton Wilder

  Choices, Mind, May

  "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.

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• The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.

  Hans Selye

  Death, Science, Emotional

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• I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally admit to ourselves. This limit of our mental faculties, and not necessarily of science itself, ensures to me that we have only just begun to figure out the universe.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Limits, Ends

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.

  George Boole

  Knowledge, Science, Law

  George Boole (1854). “An Investigation of the Laws of Thought: On which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities”, p.3

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• We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but cannot artificially produce. It is unquestionable, however, that education, legal enactments, and general social conditions have a stupendous influence on the development of the originative faculty present in a nation and determine whether it shall be a fountain of new ideas or become simply a purchaser from others of ready-made inventions.

  John Ambrose Fleming

  Education, Science, Ideas

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• But since the brain, as well as the cerebellum, is composed of many parts, variously figured, it is possible, that nature, which never works in vain, has destined those parts to various uses, so that the various faculties of the mind seem to require different portions of the cerebrum and cerebellum for their production.

  Georg Prochaska

  Nature, Science, Brain

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• [The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the mind, but upon the whole mind, that this is the greatest desideratum is. I assume, beyond dispute.

  Cassius Jackson Keyser

  Teaching, Science, Mind

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• In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.

  C. Lloyd Morgan

  Exercise, Animal, Psychology

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• We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.

  Roy Romer

  Attitude, Technology, Thinking

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• In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering, they fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it.

  Roger Bacon

  Math, Men, Intellectual

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• Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

  Aristotle

  Mean, May, Persuasion

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.25, Aeterna Press

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• It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

  Robert South

  Imagination, Fancy, Judgment

  ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.319

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• If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

  Joseph Addison

  Laughter, Believe, Heart

  'The Spectator' no. 494, 26 September 1712

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• I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Science, Literature, Logic

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Sign of the Four”, p.21, Arthur Conan Doyle

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