Phds Quotes

• When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

  Shannon Lucid

  Jobs, Lucky, Kind

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• 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.

  Freeman Dyson

  Real, Roots, People

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• I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I loved dogs.

  Michael Donaghy

  Dog, Chicago, Vivisection

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• I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a translator, which meant firstly that I was hearing about amazing-sounding books from other translators, and also that I was getting enough of an insider's view of the publishing industry to be aware of all the implicit biases that made it so difficult for these books to ever get published, especially if they weren't from European languages (harder to discover, editors can't read the original, lack of funding programmes, authors who don't speak English).

  Deborah Smith

  Book, Years, Speak English

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When God gets ready to shake America, He may not take the Ph.D. and the D.D. God may choose a country boy ... God may choose the man that no one knows, a little nobody, to shake America for Jesus Christ in this day, and I pray that He would!

  Billy Graham

  God, Christian, Country

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• Once you have a PhD, every meeting you go to becomes a doctor's appointment.

  Nick Offerman

  Doctors, Meetings, Appointments

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• The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for 'it is' or 'it has' then what you require is 'its'. This is extremely easy to grasp. Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, 'Good food at it's best', you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.

  Lynne Truss

  Writing, Lightning, Doe

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• The PhD student is someone who forgoes current income in order to forgo future income.

  Peter Greenberg

  Order, Income, Students

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• BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.

  Bobby Knight

  Deeper, Higher

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• Dean Burk, PhD, of the National Cancer Institute (head of their Cytochemistry Section and 32-year veteran at the agency) declared in a (May 30,1972) letter to (congressman Louis Frey, Jr.) that high officials of the FDA, AMA and ACS (American Cancer Society), were deliberately falsifying information, literally lying...and in other ways thwarting potential cancer cures to which they were opposed.

  Barry Lynes

  Cancer, Lying, Fda

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• The time between Bachelor's degree and a PhD, the median time is over 11 years. So then you're still only on a tenure ladder, you're not tenured. So it generally takes 6 to 8 years after that to get tenure. So that's a very long period of what's essentially apprenticeship, of insecurity.

  Louis Menand

  Years, Long, Insecurity

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.

  Denise Mina

  People, Feminism, Backgrounds

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• I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.

  Wendy Liebman

  Smart, College, Thinking

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• MAD FREE is a conversation project, not an organization, but I've literally have seen women have breakthroughs in real time. They learn and connect. I've had more women I could count say one of our conversations inspired them to be bold and wonderful things like getting PHD's or traveling to the continent. I am certainly far more inspired by the community of women than they are inspired.

  Michaela Angela Davis

  Real, Organization, Mad

  Source: www.naturallycurly.com

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• I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.

  Archie Panjabi

  Careers, Black, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• According to PhD astrophysicists and qualified American science professors, the odds of the more than 2,500 prophecies found in the Bible being fulfilled by chance are 1 with 2,000 zeros after it. According to the mathematical science of probability, if a number has more than 50 zeros after it, the odds of that happening by chance is virtually impossible. This is irrefutable proof that the Bible is inspired by God!

  Hugh Ross

  Odds, Numbers, Chance

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• [On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.

  Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

  Doors, Black, Pennsylvania

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• I would tell myself to get more sleep! Believe it or not, I wrote the book while finishing my PhD in English literature. It was wonderful to get away from doing literary scholarship by writing this mythical love story. I think so much of my own love for books and scholarship comes through in The Thorn and the Blossom.

  Theodora Goss

  Book, Believe, Sleep

  Source: www.bookequals.com

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• The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Believe, Gun

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• You have to take those concepts and prove them, a little bit like you do a PhD thesis.

  Hosain Rahman

  Littles, Like You, Hardware

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• Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to the traditional white community, and then to African-Americans and Hispanics.

  Juan Enriquez

  Real, Math, White

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?

  Nell Irvin Painter

  Race, Doe, Research

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I do worry a lot about the time it takes for people to get a PhD, about the difficulty of finding employment, about the difficulty of getting tenure, and generally about the perception that undergraduates have, that this is a very high-risk career to get started.

  Louis Menand

  Careers, People, Worry

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.

  Dave Cutler

  Junk, Unix, Programming

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• Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.

  Samuel Hall Lord

  Country, Two, Developing Countries

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