Quotes by Academic Life A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others. Albert Einstein academic-life mistake memorable Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n! Albert Einstein academic-life innovation goal Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers. David Lodge academic-life peers law My first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor. But in my second and third years at Harvard, I realized I didn't want an academic life. Garth Greenwell academic-life want years In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman. George Andrew Olah academic-life responsibility summer I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for me. If I have a carapace of academic presentability, it is thanks to the wonderful teachers I had. James Alison academic-life survival teacher The academic life is wonderful. That's why people love to do research. Michael Marmot academic-life research people You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life. Paul Samuelson academic-life tough littles In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you. Pierre Trudeau academic-life politics facts If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one. Terry Eagleton academic-life training philosophy I put that part of myself into both Brendan and Evelyn [from The Thorn and the Blossom] - as well as some of my own anxieties about the academic life! Theodora Goss academic-life wells anxiety
