Professors Quotes - Page 21

• I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

  Randy Pausch

  Dying, Bookstores, Knows

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• I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Player, College

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• Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.

  George Washington

  Heaven, Church, Christianity

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.262

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• Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses.

  Thomas Sowell

  Research, Study, Gender

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• I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

  Alexei Sayle

  Summer, Nice, Winter

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• I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

  Camille Paglia

  Years, Criticism, Jargon

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

  Hal Boyle

  Lectures, Habit, Discussion

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• His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time.

  Aaron Elkins

  Teaching, Lectures, Students

  Aaron Elkins (2014). “Dead Men's Hearts”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection, blindly picking the rare winners from among numbers drawn at utter random...nevertheless although the miracle of life stands "explained" it does not strike us as any less miraculous. As Francois Mauriac wrote, What this professor says is far more incredible than what we poor Christians believe.

  Jacques Monod

  Christian, Believe, Numbers

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• I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration. ... [I]t is not in the power of professors of the demonstrative sciences to alter their opinions at will, so as to be now of one way of thinking and now of another. ... [D]emonstrated conclusions about things in nature of the heavens, do not admit of being altered with the same ease as opinions to what is permissible or not, under a contract, mortgage, or bill of exchange.

  Galileo Galilei

  Wise, Nature, Father

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• I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science, people first say, 'it is not true,' then that 'it is contrary to religion,' and lastly, 'that everybody knew it before.'

  Charles Lyell

  Truth, Science, Light

  Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.82, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Science, Branches, Common

  Lacon: or many things in a few words (p. 189)

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• ...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called dillettanti, physicians, jurists, and so forth.Lamenting the fragmentary time left to a professor has remaining after fulfilling his teaching duties.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Education, Teaching, Science

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• [Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get the DNA structure; and although he was pleased with the double-helix, he 'rather wished the idea had been his'.

  Linus Pauling

  Dna, Ideas, Feelings

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• It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Children, Grieving, Sin

  Arthur W Pink (2013). “Practical Christianity”, p.46, Lulu Press, Inc

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• And therefore you who think so basely of the gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort is not come, know it is on the way to them, and comes to stay everlastingly with them; whereas your peace is going from you every moment, and is sure to leave you without any hope of returning to you again. Look not how the Christian begins, but ends. The Spirit of God by his convictions comes into the soul with some terrors, but it closeth with peace and joy.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Peace, Thinking

  "The Christian in Complete Armour".

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• Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and well-educated. He's often the personification of culture and refinement. The twentieth-century Uncle Thomas sometimes speaks with a Yale or Harvard accent. Sometimes he is known as Professor, Doctor, Judge, and Reverend, even Right Reverend Doctor. This twentieth-century Uncle Thomas is a professional Negro -by that I mean his profession is being a Negro for the white man.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Mean, Men

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• Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?

  Richard Russo

  Ducks, Example, Geese

  Richard Russo (2017). “Straight Man”, p.151, Atlantic Books

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• Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Looks

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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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• Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

  Camryn Manheim

  College, Parent, Degrees

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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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