Professors Quotes
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Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
Thomas Carlyle
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I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
Stephen Ambrose
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I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine.
Elizabeth Neel
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
Stephen Fry
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The great object is to find the theory of the matter of X-rays before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.
Ernest Rutherford
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I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I’ve done.
Miriam Margolyes
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I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.
William Lewis Safir
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Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.
Edwin Boring
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.
Cate Marvin
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
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If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.
Richard Feynman
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
Thomas Carlyle