Professors Quotes - Page 27

• According to PhD astrophysicists and qualified American science professors, the odds of the more than 2,500 prophecies found in the Bible being fulfilled by chance are 1 with 2,000 zeros after it. According to the mathematical science of probability, if a number has more than 50 zeros after it, the odds of that happening by chance is virtually impossible. This is irrefutable proof that the Bible is inspired by God!

  Hugh Ross

  Odds, Numbers, Phds

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• We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the sports pages, public schools, college professors and administrators, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Unless liberals specifically seek out Ann Coulter books and columns, which I highly recommend, or tune into Fox News or conservative talk radio, they have no idea what conservatives are thinking.

  Ann Coulter

  Sports, Fashion, Morning

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. November 2013.

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• I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.

  George Stigler

  Mother, Asking, Answers

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• I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.

  John Maynard Keynes

  People, Clerks, Juniors

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• Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Men, Soldier

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.54, Library of America

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• The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Book, Said, Referee

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

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• The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Doe, Assistants

  "Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, February 28, 1846.

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• The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deserving of scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of stock.

  Catharine Beecher

  Children, Home, Government

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.26

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• A prejudice may be an unreasoned judgment, he [Hibben] pointed out, but an unreasoned judgment is not necessarily an illogical judgment. ... First, there are those judgments whose verification has simply dropped out of memory. ... The second type of unreasoned judgments we hold is the opinions we adopt from others ... The third class of judgments in Professor Hibben's list comprises those which have subconscious origin. The material that furnishes their support does not reach the focal point of consciousness, but psychology insists upon its existence.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Memories, Class, Support

  "Life Without Prejudice". Book by Richard M. Weaver, "Life without prejudice," pp. 8-9, 1965.

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• Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Dirty, Smoking, Hazards

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• Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Littles, Length

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• The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the
  Trinity. . . .

  H. L. Mencken

  Support, President, Vacancy

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• Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Revenge, Hate

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• You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, College, Treats

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  College, Class, Two

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• From him [Wilard Bennett] I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known!
  [While an undergraduate, doing experimental measurements in the laboratory of his professor, at Ohio State University.]

  William M. Fowler

  Ohio State, Answers, Measurement

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• If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once under the second law of thermodynamics as one of the energies which most easily degrades itself, and, if not carefully guarded, returns bodily to the cheaper form called Heat. Of all possible theories, this is likely to prove the most fatal to Professors of History.

  Henry Adams

  Fall, Law, Return

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• I'm ultimately not so much of a professor as a progresser. And I'm ready to move away from what I consider to be this weird mid-century dream that I feel pulls us as a country, and us as a culture, backward.

  Christopher Bollen

  Dream, Country, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• (T)he most important reason American leftists love France is that French elites say bad things about America. French intellectuals call us racist, stupid, imperialistic, simplistic, etc. ' and that alone is proof of their intellectualism. So long as you call America “racist,” you could add that an enema is as good as a toothbrush and some professor of “communications theory” would applaud.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Stupid, Communication, America

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• We already have a professor who's using an online social network of MIT alums to help educate students in programming. Just imagine expanding that in Facebook-fashion to tens or hundreds of millions of people around the world.

  Anant Agarwal

  Fashion, People, Mit

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• I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students in it [and] one professor, because I feel like in terms of this school, I was one of the few students lucky enough to break into the art industry or the contemporary art world.

  Kalup Linzy

  Art, School, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.

  James Cook

  Crazy, School, Reality

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• There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.

  Pat Robertson

  Wings, United States, Racist

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• [A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Book, Important, Identity

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• The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of you once learned as gospel from your mistaken professors of yore. Your mistaken professors were too much influenced by "rational man" models of human behavior from economics and too little by "foolish man" models from psychology and real-world experience.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Men, Foolish Man

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