| "University President Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment Now the department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers." »Isaac Asimov |
| "By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action." »Albert Einstein |
| "Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word 'academic' in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation." »Myron Tribus |
| "I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph." »Shirley Temple |
| "And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department." »Andrew Carnegie |
| "The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process." »Herbert Butterfield |
| "I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal class." »David Mohler |
| "A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind." »George Will |
| "Look at the Justice department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered." »Felix Adler |
| "As we were driving, we saw a sign that said 'Watch For Rocks.' Marta said it should read 'Watch For PRETTY Rocks.' I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke---just to get out of writing a simple letter And I thought I was lazy" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack." »James Barrett Scotty Reston |
| "Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men." »John Calvin |
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