#academic

The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#academics #darwin #einstein #freud #institutions

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#acquaintances #after #back #circle #experiences

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#accessible #after #anyone #black #black hole

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#area #attracts #festivals #me #modern

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#aristocratic #atmosphere #common #common sense #live

I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#anyone #deny #group #i #superior

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#ask #department #diversity #how #important

Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#children #cultural #develop #emotional #engaging

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#everybody #i #notion #single #some

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#academics #art #art-history #artists #arts