#academic

I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#appeal #ends #exploring #extreme #forgotten

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#analyse #brains #changes #chemical #exposing

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#could #criticism #far #i #kind

My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over. ↗

— Elizabeth Perkins

#always #attractive #came #door #find

I still feel glad to emphasize the duty, the defining characteristic of the pure scientist—probably to be found working in universities—who commit themselves absolutely to specialized goals, to seek the purest manifestation of any possible phenomenon that they are investigating, to create laboratories that are far more controlled than you would ever find in industry, and to ignore any constraints imposed by, as it were, realism. Further down the scale, people who understand and want to exploit results of basic science have to do a great deal more work to adapt and select the results, and combine the results from different sources, to produce something that is applicable, useful, and profitable on an acceptable time scale. ↗

— C.A.R. Hoare

#academic #research #theory #science

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD. ↗

— Paul Berg

#career #considered #deciding #get #had

You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#anything #dedicated #excitement #finding #fun

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research. ↗

— Juan Cole

#accept #argument #balance #david #government

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#first #genuine #i #job #offer

I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys would cut class to come and see me. ↗

— Freddie Prinze

#bathroom #bits #class #come #cut