“My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.” SchoolMotherFatherTaughtHigh SchoolProfessorsEngineeringMitCivil EngineeringSchool English Author:Eric Allin Cornell
“It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.” PartyClassProfessorsAcademicScholarship Author:Juan Cole
“Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned that he was passionate about flying into space someday.” FirstsOpportunitySpaceConversationFoundationPassionateFlyingSomedayPrizeProfessors Author:Peter Diamandis
“But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.” KindI CanBookCharacterReadingCan DoVisionSawsShapesDirectorsDefinedProfessorsApprovalHarry PotterPottersMatched Author:Warwick Davis
“One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.” WellsLittlesSaidBookHouseBoysGoodnessLaysUniversityDinnerFacultyProfessorsOne TimeGrandparentInsultedColoradoPlumbingIndoor Plumbing Author:Charles Frazier
“Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.” ImportantCollegeDadMembersSaintActiveSatChemistryProfessorsChemicalsCommitteesTextbooksOxfordMinnesotaOlaf Author:Peter Agre
“[About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their jobs within 65 days.] No conceivable damage to the university at the hands of hypothetical Communists among us could possibly have equaled the damage resulting from the unrest, ill-will and suspicion engendered by this series of events.” HandsJobsScienceLosesResultsEventsDemandSeriesUniversityIllLoyaltyCaliforniaBoardsDamageCommunistProfessorsSuspicionOathUnrestHypotheticalIll Will Author:Joel Henry Hildebrand
“My brother is nine years older than I am. He's a psychology professor, I'm an actor, and so we look at life in two different ways. We thought it would be interesting to come together and take our unique perspectives and share them with everybody else.” WayYearsLooksTwoDifferentWould BeTogetherActorsInterestingPsychologyShareBrotherPerspectiveUniqueNineDifferent WaysMy BrotherProfessorsNine YearsUnique Perspective Author:Matt Czuchry
“My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.” MotherGamesTheoryEconomicsLogicMathStatisticsProfessorsSymbolic Author:Dave Hickey
“I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.” Professors Author:Robert Huber
“I like the Stooges. You know what movie I saw that I sort of discovered late was Jerry Lewis in 'The Nutty Professor'. I really liked that.” KnowsSawsLateProfessorsJerryNuttyStooges Author:Mike Judge
“Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.” PeopleWayHumansDifferentFeltPleasureTakenProfessionProfessorsHuman ExperienceDifferent Directions Author:Donald Kagan