“I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review.” WritingProcessTermQualityHeardNegativeReviewsAcademicTenureAcademic WritingAcademic Work Author:Daniel Drezner
“Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.” AbleOrderEducationFieldsSellsPossessionAcquireAcademicPearlsAcademic Work Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals) Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)
“Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.” WantWritingLittlesSometimesStrongBitsDifficultDifferencesPayAttentionLittle BitClaimsAcademicBlogsBack And ForthNavigateAcademic Work Author:Alex Tabarrok
“I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.” JobsReadingFoundLiteratureRelevantAcademicGardeningAcademic Work Author:Ken Thompson
“And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is extremely hard to define and we therefore have to have a deep thinking about it. And the reason it's hard to define is quite simple. It's hard to find a definition that includes what they do to us but excludes what we do to them. That's quite difficult. So it takes a global war on terrorism.” IfsThinkingLooksWarHardReasonDifficultSimpleConstantDefinitionsTerrorismThemeAcademicConferencesWar On TerrorWar On TerrorismDeep ThinkingAcademic Work Author:Noam Chomsky
“A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.” KnowsWorldStillsEarthLanguageStuffReligiousAnswersBrainConsciousnessWonderfulSubjectsAreasArguingPlentyThese DaysAcademicAggressionTopicsHuman BehaviorOther WorldsNobody KnowsOrigin Of LifeAcademic Work Author:Michael Crichton
“The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to God’s glory is not scholarship but insurrection.” IfsMenWritingLittlesRealityChristianUniverseSpeakKnownStudySubjectsDesignGloryTasksTreatsInfiniteManifestationAcademicBiblicalScholarshipAccuracyManifoldInsurrectionAbdicationAcademic Work Book:Think Source: Think
“I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'” HelpingStoriesHappensLife IsDifferencesMaking A DifferenceHelp MeGrandmotherAcademicMy GrandmotherAdagesTelling StoriesNonprofitsAcademic Work Author:Chelsea Clinton
“[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.” SchoolScienceInterestActingKnowledgeLearningSubjectsEssentialsHigh SchoolTownsMathematicsPhysicsAstronomyPursuitTennisAcademicJeansArthurAstronomersFondnessCapesCape TownAcademic Work Author:Allan McLeod Cormack
“My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.” WritingAcademicLensesLabsZoomAcademic Work Author:David Eagleman
“I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.” I RealizedLabourAcademicMechanicAptitudeCateringAcademic Work Author:Toby Young