Academic Quotes - Page 27

• As an academic I feel I should intellectualize and theoretically analyze when all I really want to do is let the work take me somewhere, manipulate me, and then rough me up a bit. When it comes right down to it, I only want to spend time with work that makes me think and teaches me something while making my body react.

  Barbara Degenevieve

  Thinking, Body, Want

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• I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for me. If I have a carapace of academic presentability, it is thanks to the wonderful teachers I had.

  James Alison

  Teacher, Academic Life, Survival

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects" involve mathematical puzzles that are not nearly so well worked out as physics theories and never can be... What has happened in Japan over roughly the last ten years has shaken up academic economics, as it obviously should, creating strong worries about recession from "wealth effects" in reverse.

  Charlie Munger

  Strong, Creating, Worry

  Charlie Munger's speech at the Breakfast Meeting of the Philanthropy Roundtable in Washington, D.C., November 10, 2000.

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• I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn't active enough for me.

  Betty Friedan

  World, Want, Enough

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world.

  Betty Friedan

  Boys, World, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie, except in the sense that Cocteau wrote one day: I am a lie who always tells the truth. The only poetry which lies purely and simply is academic, pseudo-classical, conceptually repetitive poetry, and it is not poetry.

  Jacques Maritain

  Plato, Lying, Thinking

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• The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of the universe. The successful candidate will have an excellent command of mass, energy, space, time and some maths. Bonus paid upon completion of proofs

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Successful, Hands

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• I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more of a hybrid - a different style of filmmaking to what I call talking head movies. Some people don't get it. Especially the more academic types.

  George Lucas

  Talking, Silent Films, People

  "Star Wars archive: George Lucas 1999 interview". Interview with Ian Freer, www.empireonline.com. September 1999.

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• I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.

  Dallas Campbell

  Passion, Ideas, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"--words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like "identity" and "search" and "cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had "American" become an ironic term? How had "democracy" come to be used in an arch, mocking way?

  Jennifer Egan

  Stars, Real, Book

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.262, Anchor

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• Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have seen psychology grow up, and we've seen the development of neurophysiology and other much more sophisticated science, but only in the recent years have the tools of quantum mechanics been applied to anything representing human scale size.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Growing Up, Years, Psychology

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• A different set of incentives from rising in an economic establishment where the rewards system, again, the reinforcement, comes from being a truffle hound. That's what Jacob Viner, the great economist called it: the truffle hound - an animal so bred and trained for one narrow purpose that he wasn't much good at anything else, and that is the reward system in a lot of academic departments.

  Charlie Munger

  Animal, Different, Purpose

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• The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of thought control on a wide variety of issues. Increasingly, from the left's perspective, there is just one acceptable viewpoint.

  David Limbaugh

  Issues, Perspective, Political

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• Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.

  Peter Schiff

  Thinking, Printing Money, Circles

  "A Little Understanding Goes a Long Way" by Peter Schiff, www.businessinsider.com. March 7, 2011.

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• You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the cinema, but somehow when we think of science, we think of it only as an academic discipline.

  Dallas Campbell

  Thinking, Discipline, Cinema

  Source: collider.com

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• I am fun. I do have a good time. I have a good heart. I'm not all jokes. I'm a pretty serious person sometimes. I'm very very hardworking. I'm very academic.

  Heidi Montag

  Fun, Heart, Serious Person

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• Until the Left took over American public education in the second half of the 20th century, it was generally excellent - look at the high level of eighth-grade exams from early in the 20th century and you will weep. The more money the Left has gotten for education - America now spends more per student than any country in the world - the worse the academic results. And the Left has removed God and dress codes from schools - with socially disastrous results.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, School, America

  "From California to the Boy Scouts: Left Destroys More than It Builds". jewishworldreview.com. February 24, 2009.

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• Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious - but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance. Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Senior, Christian, Religious

  "The US needs a new soft era" by Ahmed H. Zewail, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2010.

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• Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.

  Ben Stein

  Academic Freedom, People, Challenges

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• I feel that very strongly: having been an academic, having been tempted by the invitation to stay on to become a Ph.D., a professor, and all that, one side of me certainly does respect all disciplines, as long as they don't ossify.

  Sylvia Plath

  Discipline, Long, Doe

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true. These are the kinds of things that we sit around talking to each other about in our dusty libraries. To see these conversations take place in popular culture is the best thing that could have ever happened.

  Reza Aslan

  Dream, Integrity, Talking

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college, I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn't performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.

  Aisha Tyler

  Growing Up, Kids, College

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Even as I've become more reticent about the political possibilities of the academic space, I want to note that students have played significant roles in insurrectionary activity across the globe for decades and centuries, and I don't think that we've crossed some threshold where that's never going to happen again. We still need to take the university space quite seriously.

  Joshua Clover

  Thinking, Political, Students

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• Woodrow Wilson administration ended in tragedy, with his insistence on governing following his disabling stroke. I suspect President Wilson is often graded on a special curve, because many academic historians identify with him as one of their own.

  James M Strock

  Special, Tragedy, President

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• Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find out is an occult and arcane language designed only for the purpose of excluding those who have not mastered it and giving academic rewards to those who have. No one with any literacy, taste or intelligence would want to teach these courses, so the bona fide definition of people teaching them are people who are incapable of teaching anything else.

  Roger Ebert

  Teaching, People, Giving

  "Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology." by David Weddle, articles.latimes.com. July 13, 2003.

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