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“The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burning curiosity. It was through his curiosity that he made many real contributions to medical science.”

Thinking Men Made Real Simple He Man Medicine Inspired Curiosity Medical Burning Contribution Professors Drs Surgery Hopkins Medical Science Simple Man

Author:Denton Cooley

“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”

Years Believe Whole America Money Education Week Security Average Athlete Educational Professors More Money Professional Athlete Pro Athlete

Author:Evan Esar

“Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions.”

Said Stars Behinds Insight Intuition Speed Proof Brilliant Dancer Cosmos Leap Professors Mentor Sheer Hypothesis Elegance Assertion Drones Finesse

Book:Twilight of the Superheroes

Source: Twilight of the Superheroes

“My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children's books, and so I did.”

Should Writing Trying Children Said Book States University Silly Professors Notebook Good Writers Children's Books Freshman Kent Writing Children's Books

Author:Dav Pilkey

“I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays”

Writing Novel Sunday Professors

Author:Umberto Eco

“Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.”

Book College Professors Academic Memorizing Academic Education College Professors

Book:The Philistine

Source: The Philistine

“The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game.”

Firsts Long Games Left Morning Team Students Football Bed Mass First Time South Stations Breakfast Professors Campus Hysteria Railroads Downtown Football Game Dames Notre Dame Mass Hysteria

Author:Knute Rockne

“You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.”

Courses Technology Internet University Digital Professors

Author:Carlos Slim

“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.”

“Jesus’ words are inseparable from his person. He himself is the message he proclaims.”

Persons God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Religious Lord Messages Christian Inspirational Professors Trust In God Inseparable Baptists Following Jesus Proclaiming Jesus Words

Book:The Presence of the Future: The Eschatology of Biblical Realism

Source: The Presence of the Future: The Eschatology of Biblical Realism

“A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.”

Art Speak Professors

Book:The Works of the Late ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Collected by Thomas Moore, Etc

Source: The Works of the Late ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Collected by Thomas Moore, Etc

“Professors typically spend their time in meetings about planning, policy, proposals, fund-raising, consulting, interviewing, traveling, and so forth, but spend relatively little time at their drawing boards. As a result, they lose touch with the substance of their rapidly developing subject. They lose the ability to design; they lose sight of what is essential; and they resign themselves to teach academically challenging puzzles.”

“What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?”

Poetry Poetry Is Professors

Author:W. H. Auden

“After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.”

Ifs Believe Art Book Play Art Is University Professors Irrelevant If You Believe University Professors

Author:Irving Kristol

“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.”

Ifs Way Years Stills Matter Study Students University Complaining Professors Spells

Book:The Quotable Feynman

Source: The Quotable Feynman

“...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough - that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of.”

Giving Said Enough Politics Deals Negative Democratic Rate Contrary Minorities Professors Collectivism Thesis Hayek Road To Serfdom

Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944

“The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came from . . . whatever your tunes were over there, we played them in New Orleans.”

Different House Differences Style Needed Tunes Professors New Orleans Different Styles

Author:Jelly Roll Morton

“My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor, my mom, she has such great faith.”

Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Professors Pastor Great Faith Seminary

Author:Allyson Felix

“I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.”

Hours Finals Professors Devoted Quotations Pupils Verify

Book:The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill

Source: The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill

“I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.”

Men Ideas Simple Answers Class Understood My Friends Obvious Professors Hostile Escapism Jailer

Book:Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

Source: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

“If you show a poetry professor your shiny new multiple choice teaching technology, he will invite you to exit his office.”

Ifs Shows Choices Technology Teaching Office Professors Invites Multiple Exit Multiple Choice

Author:Andrew Ng

“Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.”

Knows Forget Philosopher Greek Professors Smarter Interpreter

Author:Allan Bloom

“There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.”

Believe Certain One Thing Students Truth Is University Professors Relative Skepticism Entering

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“I would have all the professors in colleges, all the teachers in schools of every kind, including those in Sunday schools, agree that they would teach only what they know, that they would not palm off guesses as demonstrated truths.”

Knows Kind School Teach Teacher Teaching College Agree Including Sunday Professors Palms Sunday School

Book:The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]

Source: The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]

“I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.”

Book Hands Government Written Normal Nine Professors

Author:Madeleine Albright

“If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.”

Ifs Stills Book Use Reading Next Rooms Library University Decent Smoking Professors More Money Founding Dormitory Reading Room

Author:Stephen Leacock

“When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.”

Dies Left Strange Glory England Police Eras Legacy Professors Greece New England

Book:Thoughts without words

Source: Thoughts without words

“Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.”

Years Half University Professors Articles Fewer Publish University Professors

Author:Derek Bok

“Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.”

Way Teach Taught Professors

Author:Derek Bok

“Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.”

Thinking Stills Challenges Effort Practice Audience Students Critical Professors Passive Lectures Critical Thinking

Author:Derek Bok

“Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.”

Thinking Important Goal Study College Skills Tests Regard Average Critical Professors Senior Improving Entering Critical Thinking Freshman

Author:Derek Bok

“Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.”

Doe Facts Support Failing Teaching College Majors Research Evidence Critics University Tendencies Neglect Professors Attributes Thesis Undergraduate

Author:Derek Bok

“I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.”

Want Said Wanted Teach Fields Needed Degrees Get Back Professors Tenure

Author:Jane Goodall

“The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.”

Firsts War Shows Father Saws First Time Touched Professors Hammers Anvils

Author:Alfred Nobel

“We are not shooting enough professors.”

Inspirational Enough Shooting Professors

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and molecules, one of his students came to him with the question, "Professor, what is your idea of the structure of the atom." "What," said Kelvin, "The structure of the atom? Why, don't you know, the very word 'atom' means the thing that can't be cut. How then can it have a structure?" "That," remarked the facetious young man, "shows the disadvantage of knowing Greek."”

“I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.”

Littles Past Science Forty Professors Biographies Oxford

Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his precious time.”

“You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?”

Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

“For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.”

People Giving Effects Media Genius Speech Standards University Impression Propaganda Professors Speakers Statesmen University Professors

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.”

Bread Professors Antiquity Bread And Butter

Author:Jules de Goncourt

“I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.”

Stills Literature Half Events Humour British Convinced Arguing Professors Council Other Half

Author:Tibor Fischer

“Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education”

Men Book Literature Interest Poor Defense Profession Professors Mediocre

Author:Yvor Winters

“I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.”

Universe My Own Professors

Author:Sylvia Ashton-Warner

“Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.”

Ifs Way Needs Writing School Needed Decided Als Professors

Author:Tom Bodett

“I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.”

Kind Bigs Wanted School Political Found Stars Tvs Professors Movie Star Boston Political Science

Author:Eliza Dushku

“My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.”

Years Hard Study Teaching Mom International Feminist My Mom Core Professors Boston Hard Core

Author:Eliza Dushku

“I’m indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John’s in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.”

Teacher Catholic Professors Monk Minnesota Indebted Georgetown

Author:Denis McDonough

“I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.”

Mean Theater Fats Someday Professors

Author:Darren Criss

“My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.”

Firsts Littles Kids School Used Father Stage Needed First Time University Productions Grades Professors Little Kid University Professors

Author:Michael Cerveris

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