Academic Life Quotes

A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.

You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.

The academic life is wonderful. That's why people love to do research.

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.

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

I put that part of myself into both Brendan and Evelyn [from The Thorn and the Blossom] - as well as some of my own anxieties about the academic life!

My first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor. But in my second and third years at Harvard, I realized I didn't want an academic life.