University Quotes - Page 27

• With leading research universities, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and private companies like Blue Sun working on developing alternative fuels, Colorado is poised to become an international leader in clean energy.

  Ken Salazar

  Blue, Leader, Energy

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• France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Relationship, Mean, Two

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• Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure that cannot be maintained. The elite...know only how to feed the beast until it dies. Once it is dead, they will be helpless. Don't expect them to save us. They don't know how....and when it all collapses, when our rotten financial system with its trillions in worthless assets implodes and our imperial wars end in humiliation and defeat, the power elite will be exposed as being as helpless, and as self-deluded as the rest of us

  Chris Hedges

  Jobs, War, Self

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• I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.

  Roald Hoffmann

  Teacher, Years, Proud

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• I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

  John Pople

  College, Awards, October

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• In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Two, Wisconsin, Chemistry

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• In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

  Jack Steinberger

  Weekend, Chicago, Evening

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• If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

  Johnny Ball

  Sensual, Needs, Want

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• I refused this evening at Oxford University to debate with an Israeli, a supporter of the apartheid state of Israel. The reason is simple: no recognition, no normalisation. Just boycott, divestment and sanctions, until the apartheid state is defeated. I never debate with Israelis nor speak to their media. If they want to speak about Palestine – the address is the PLO.

  George Galloway

  Simple, Israel, Media

  "George Galloway refuses to debate with Israeli student at Oxford" by Warren Murray, Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2013.

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• Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college.

  Elton Gallegly

  Moving, School, College

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• Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Baseball, Memories

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Texas, Play

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, School, Minnesota

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• We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Real, Order, Students

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• The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.

  Diane Ravitch

  School, Gutters, Ladders

  Diane Ravitch (2000). “The Great School Wars: A History of the New York City Public Schools”, p.244, JHU Press

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• Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Physics, Calculus, Rice

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• The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?

  Gene Stallings

  People, Expectations, Excellence

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• Another picture I hope to be remembered by is this one of the drum major rehearsing at the University of Michigan. It was early in this morning, and I saw a little boy running after him, all the faculty children in the playing field ran after the boy, and I ran after them. This is a completely spontaneous, unstaged picture.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Running, Morning, Children

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• The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Self Confidence, Differences

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• For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

  Vanessa Mae

  Mom, School, Degrees

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• The university should color itself black and color itself mulatto — not just as regards students but also professors. Today the people stand at the door of the university, and it is the university that must be flexible. It must color itself black, mulatto, worker, peasant, or else be left without doors. And then the people will tear it apart and paint it with the colors they see fit.

  Che Guevara

  Doors, Color, People

  "'The University Should Color Itself Black, Mulatto, Worker and Peasant'". Speech to the University of Las Villas, www.themilitant.com. December 28, 1959.

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• I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

  Amartya Sen

  Campus, Born, Seems

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• In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

  Thorstein Veblen

  School, Law, Dancing

  The Higher Learning in America ch. 7 (1918)

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• I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it… and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Technology, Thinking

  "The Atheism Tapes". Documentary, 2004.

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• University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's not a consumption decision, it's an investment decision. Actually, no, it's a bad consumption decision. Most colleges are four-year parties.

  Peter Thiel

  Party, College, Years

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