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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.

  William Kittredge

  Mean, Worry, Stories

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• As a person of color, you're in a PhD level racism class, every day. Every day, I'm in a deep racism seminar. And I'm not saying that white people aren't taking that class, but they don't show up that often and they're auditing it.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Color, Class, White

  Source: collider.com

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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 have students who are PhDs in music who come back and scored the music and teach the kids the instruments that I don't know how to play. Those are the points of light, the former students.

  Rafe Esquith

  Kids, Light, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It’s irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. What they think of me after I’m dead and gone in one generation will be determined by researchers who do PhDs on me, right? So there will be a lot of revisionism. As people revised Stalin, Brezhnev and one day now Yeltsin, and later on Putin. I’ve lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you’re dead.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Thinking, Long, People

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• For me, my discomfort with gay weddings was articulated by a close friend, who observed that gay people getting married is like retarded people getting together to give each other PhDs. It doesn't make them smarter, and it doesn't make us married.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, People, Giving

  Dan Savage (2000). “The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant”, p.18, Penguin

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• I was trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I thought I did that. I prepared myself for that kind of road. But then I realized that I had not learned enough to solve the problem of poverty. So I distanced myself from the things that I learned and tried to learn anew about people.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Teaching, People, Poverty

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• If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book...it has sort of it's own narrative that one could analyze and write literary criticism about.

  Tao Lin

  Book, Writing, Criticism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't have an MFA, or a PhD, I tend to approach it just through my own practice.

  Kate Zambreno

  Teaching, Writing, Practice

  "The naming is a political act, the writing is a political act, a revolt against disappearance". Interview with Noah Charney, logger.believermag.com. November 3, 2014.

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• I got my MBA at Burberry, but I will get my PhD at Apple.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Apples, Mba, Burberry

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• My first job was actually as a social worker. And then later, I got my PhD in anthropology. And I've always been interested in humans as well as primates. We are all kind of have the same emotions, the same goals and lives really. But to me, when I first got to Madagascar I realized that the lemurs lives are very closely related to what the humans are doing; partially because they've got both looking for natural resources. And if we can make some way that both humans and lemurs can live together peaceably and happily, that would be my goal for Madagascar.

  Patricia Wright

  Jobs, Goal, Together

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• A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.

  Keith Devlin

  Writing, Years, Three

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• ...60 advocates of unorthodox therapies whose credentials are given in the ACS book (above).(:) Of these 60, thirty-nine or almost two-thirds, hold...medical degrees from such universities as Harvard, Illinois, Northwestern, Yale, Dublin, Oxford, or Toronto. Two are osteopaths. 3...also hold...(PhD's)....scientific....reputable....8 others received PhD's in such fields as chemistry, physiology, bacteriology, parasitology, or medical physics, from...Yale, Johns Hopkins, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and NYU. Thus over 75%...are medical doctors or doctors of philosophy in scientific areas.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Philosophy, Book, Dark

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• Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Player, Essentials, Levels

  Marilyn Johnson (2010). “This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.

  Kevin Rudd

  Excuse, Starting, Young

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