#academic

When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#ancient #becomes #before #comfort #discussion

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them. ↗

— Terri Windling

#great #great respect #hat #i #material

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope. ↗

— Woody Allen

#humor #science #humor

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar. ↗

— Amos Oz

#love

I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#completely #concentration #did #good #good student

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#academics #around #conventional #conventional wisdom #internet

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#been #between #confronted #could #i

The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London. ↗

— James W. Black

#came #chance #college #establish #foundation

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#being #came #carl #formal #gave

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time. ↗

— Ralph Allen

#among #art #artists #best #contrary