“It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".” MaySaidPastScienceCenturySeriousErrorsProfessorsHistorian18th Century Author:D. V. Ager
“When I was doing Professor Albert Einstein's bust he had many a jibe at the Nazi professors, one hundred of whom had condemned his theory of relativity in a book. 'Were I wrong,' he said, 'one professor would have been enough.” Has BeensSaidBookEnoughTheoryHundredCriticsProfessorsNaziRelativityTheories Of Relativity Author:Jacob Epstein
“I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'” SaidI CanDegreesInstitutionsIncludingRadioHolesBoatProfessorsEngagementCoconutsMit Author:Russell Johnson
“When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what "rules" he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon plaisir "whatever I please" and he further claimed that more was to be gained by watching the sun rise than by listening to the Pastoral Symphony. Although such remarks were intended to shock, they contain a core of Debussyan verity.” SaidPastSunListeningPleaseCoreShockProfessorsRemarksSymphonyPuzzledSun RiseDebussy Author:Claude Debussy
“I would go to newsstands and buy paperbacks they were selling for tourists, usually bestsellers and mass market paperbacks. In the beginning, it was like going to the Rosetta Stone--I didn?t understand anything, I'd get a headache--but I began to figure it out, and I'd read a lot of Stephen King paperbacks. I've always said he was my English professor.” SaidFiguresKingsMassStonesSellingProfessorsTouristsHeadacheRosetta Stone Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon