“There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.” BookEndsWrittenStylePhysicsLecturesGreat ScienceScience Books Author:David Gelernter
“Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art being mangled; furthermore, it is unlikely that the venerable scholars will stand up afterward to declare, "This lecture was a load of crap." The more profound a professor's distaste with the proceedings, the more likely he is to melt away at the end of the talk.” PeopleArtBookEndsCompanyListeningArt IsSittingProfoundCrowdsProfessorsScholarLoadCrapUnlikelyLecturesProceedingDistasteHistory And Art Author:Camille Paglia
“Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B. Tinker was the most noted. To read one of his lectures was like reading a monologue of the great actress Ruth Draper--you missed the main point. You missed the drop in his voice as he approached the death in Rome of the tubercular Keats; you missed the shaking tone in which he described the poet's agony for the absent Fanny with him his love had never been consummated; you missed the grim silence of the end.” MindEndsUseReadingVoiceSilenceAudiencePoetActressesTricksDramaticToneRomeAgonyHis LoveLecturesAbsentShakingGrimLecturerYaleMonologuesRuth Author:Louis Auchincloss