Professors Quotes - Page 10

• Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

  Hal Boyle

  Lectures, Habit, Discussion

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• Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and popular than that of Einstein gradually fading into ineptitude under the searchlight; and I have no doubt that there will arise a new generation who will look with a wonder and amazement, deeper than now accompany Einstein, at our galaxy of thinkers, men of science, popular critics, authoritative professors and witty dramatists, who have been satisfied to waive their common sense in view of Einstein's absurdities.

  Arthur Lynch

  Witty, Eye, Science

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• Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do you think that such an easy religion can save you? If so, we may invert Christ's words and say, 'Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to life, and may there be that go in there.'

  John Flavel

  Heart, Thinking, Tears

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• My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

  Maya Lin

  College, Artist, Parent

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• In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Country, Teacher

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.

  David Halberstam

  Baseball, Religious, Encouragement

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• We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.

  David Horowitz

  Religious, Trust No One, Doctors

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• I have chosen for my emblem a Star, representing the Virgin Mary, and the Eucharist. Those who know me as a professor of theology will remember my passion for the Eucharist from our classes. Blessed be God for this madness... We must live our commitment to society steeped in the Eucharist. We must take the Eucharist to the streets, both in the heart of the city and on the outskirts, to the poor neighborhoods and to hospitals... In order to obey the Resurrected Christ, I dare say with Pope John Paul II: 'Open wide the doors of your heart to the Holy Spirit.'

  Nicolas Cotugno

  Stars, Blessed, Passion

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• There are no enemies in science, professor, only phenomena to study.

  Charles Lederer

  Science, Enemy, Study

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

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• Professor Brown: 'Since this slide was made,' he opined, 'My students have re-examined the errant points and I am happy to report that all fall close to the [straight] line.' Questioner: 'Professor Brown, I am delighted that the points which fell off the line proved, on reinvestigation, to be in compliance. I wonder, however, if you have had your students reinvestigate all these points that previously fell on the line to find out how many no longer do so?'

  Herbert C. Brown

  Fall, Science, Lines

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• I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white sheet on the board with a dot in the right hand corner and said, "Boys, what do you see?" And we all shouted, a black dot. He stood back and said, "not a single one of you saw the broad white sheet, you all saw the black dot." He went on to tell us to focus on the broader picture, don't focus on the negative.

  Kofi Annan

  Inspiration, School, Boys

  "Kofi Annan discusses Bolton, scandal, Iraq". Interview with Barbara Slavin, www.usatoday.com. May 15, 2005.

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• ...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that much of that body of work had been fabricated well after the establishment of Islam in order to lend outside support to Koranic mythology.... [T]he Iranian journalist and diplomat Ali Dashti...repeatedly took his fellow Muslims to task for not questioning the traditional accounts of Muhammad's life, much of which he called myth-making and miracle-mongering.

  Toby Lester

  Islamic, Government, University Professors

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• Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Crime, Mathematical, Watson

  Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) "The Final Problem"

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• I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dirty, School, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the sub-agents, the sub-sub-agents, the accountants, the libel lawyers, the departments of literature, the professors, the theses, the books of criticism, the reviewers, the book pages- all this vast and proliferating edifice is because of this small, patronized, put-down and underpaid person.'

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Writing, Criticism

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• I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint - no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided...

  Richard M. Nixon

  Believe, Academic Freedom, Viewpoints

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• 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.

  Kathy Reichs

  University Professors, Giving, Hook

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• I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.

  John Hench

  Art, School, People

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• The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.

  Henri Lebesgue

  Education, Teaching, Math

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• Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Simple, Oxygen

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

  Niall Ferguson

  Teacher, Strategy, Questioning

  "Niall Ferguson: 'The left love being provoked by me ... they think I'm a reactionary imperialist scumbag" By Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.

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• In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered.

  Donald A. Norman

  Real, Nice, University Professors

  Donald A. Norman (2013). “The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.141, Basic Books

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• [What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny probably worse, because more irresponsible, than that of the State. The trouble with competitions is that somebody wins them. Professor Hayek denies that free capitalism necessarily leads to monopoly, but in practice that is where it has led, and since the vast majority of people would far rather have State regimentation than slumps and unemployment, the drift towards collectivism is bound to continue if popular opinion has any say in the matter.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Winning, Practice

  George Orwell (2003). “Orwell: The Observer Years”, Atlantic Books (UK)

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• Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please professors, even if what professors teach is fatuous. The point is to get ahead, and getting ahead means deference to authority. Challenging authority is never a career advancer.

  Chris Hedges

  Mean, School, Careers

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• My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

  Matt Damon

  Mother, Two, Childhood

  "Matt Damon: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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