#academic

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#exercise #freedom #government #great #independence

One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#adventure #chicago #city #downtown #dream

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#another #cancel #drives #every #expert

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#complex #culture #elegant #google #i

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#any #background #college #come #european

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know? ↗

— Kerry Washington

#always #background #because #been #come

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#academics #athletes #both #caricatures #expert

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#academic #background #culture #especially #ivy

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#ever #however #i #less #much

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#before #ever #growing #jargon #most