Professor Quotes

• Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? what shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Philosophy
  • Laughter
  • Planets

• If there is anyone who values free speech, it is a tenured professor!

  

  Anthea Butler
  • Free
  • Speech
  • Professor

• For example, I came to my exams very well prepared, but if the professor were suddenly to ask me, “Do you know from what works I derive the authority on the basis of which I teach this subject in this university?” I wouldn’t know what to answer. But the others knew. So I moved among them fearful of saying and doing the wrong things.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Teach
  • Authority
  • University

• The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young.

  

  Arno C. Gaebelein
  • Faith
  • Menace
  • Undermines

• The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

  

  Alison King
  • Guide
  • Professor
  • Sage

• I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry.

  

  Ryoji Noyori
  • Students
  • Research
  • Chemistry

• My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Heaven
  • Hero
  • Alcoholic

• Walked in class and my professor goes "when did you plan on telling us that you can fly"

  

  Cardale Jones
  • Fly
  • Class
  • Can

• An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in Eastern European countries for being an accomplice of the dissidents. None of these descriptions is important by itself; taken together, on the other hand, they mean something. And I must admit that I rather like what they mean.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Country
  • Mean
  • Professor

• I was afraid that she would express herself in dialect, that she would say something vulgar, that it would become obvious that school for her had ended with an elementary-school diploma. I was afraid that, if she merely opened her mouth, everyone would be hypnotized by her intelligence and Professor Galiani herself would be entranced. I was afraid that the professor would find her both presumptuous and naïve and would say to me: Who is this friend of yours, stop seeing her. I was afraid she would understand that I was only Lila’s pale shadow and would be interested not in me any longer but in her, she would want to see her again, she would undertake to make her go back to school.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • School
  • Shadow
  • Afraid

• The rock is gonna fall on us," he stood and told the class The professor put his chalk down and peered out through his glasses But he went on and said; "I've seen it, high up on the hill If it doesn't fall this year then very soon it will!

  

  Harry Chapin
  • Rock
  • Professor

• Why's my name the Large Professor? Cause I milked your cow, in other words I hit your heifer.

  

  Extra P
  • Professor
  • Cow
  • My Name

• One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.

  

  Andrew Hoberek
  • Goals
  • Teach
  • Recognize

• It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

  

  Juan Cole
  • Party
  • Promote
  • Professor

• We heard from a professor at an evangelical college who wore a hijab in solidarity with Muslim women. Now we have a different perspective. Asra Nomani co-wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post titled in part "As Muslim Women, We Actually Ask You Not To Wear The Hijab."

  

  Ari Shapiro
  • College
  • Professor
  • Hijab

• If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.

  

  Brother Ali
  • Blues
  • Professor

• I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email.

  

  Endre Szemeredi
  • Science
  • Computer
  • E-mail

• One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Friend
  • Grandfather
  • Behave

• You can't be a professor without having been a student. You can't be a consultant without having been a research associate. So, if you outsource the least sophisticated jobs, at some stage, the next step of the ladder has to follow.

  

  Nirmalya Kumar
  • Step
  • Follow
  • Student

• Large Professor, none greater none fresher, Won't fold under pressure...grew up down the road from Fran Drescher.

  

  Extra P
  • Road
  • Pressure
  • Professor

• I sometimes say I am the extinguished professor, because what I'd really like to be is the postdoc, to have that kind of thinking. I think one can get very set in his ways with titles like 'distinguished professor.'

  

  Sydney Brenner
  • Thinking
  • Titles
  • Professor

• The professor was looking at Theodosia; he knew with resigned amusement that he was about to become the owner of the little dog. She wasn’t going to ask, but the expression on her face was eloquent.

  

  Betty Neels
  • Dog
  • Expression
  • Professor

• You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Pain
  • Professor
  • Kicked

• Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.

  

  Dean Wesley Smith
  • Writing
  • English
  • Fiction

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