Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world. – Philip Zimbardo
I really didn’t like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science. – Eric Betzig
Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don’t operate within the academic system myself. – Eliezer Yudkowsky
Classrooms cannot and should not be coerced into adopting federal academic standards. That’s not just my belief; it’s federal law. – Jeff Duncan
Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them. – Maajid Nawaz
I haven’t been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. – Manuel Puig
I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein. – Mo Ibrahim
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. – Mason Cooley
I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off. – John Hewson
I say I’m an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write. – Kay Redfield Jamison
In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal. – Loretta Young
My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university. – Paul Nurse
Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as much practical as academic. To put it simply, if we can’t spot them, we are doomed to be their victims, both as individuals and as a society. – Robert D. Hare
I was talking to my dad, who’s a neurosurgeon. He had this academic paper he wanted to publish. Journals take about 18 months to publish a paper, and he just wanted to get things up there. – Trip Adler
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools – except for penmanship, which was not my forte. – Vernon L. Smith
But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women’s movement did not either. – Teresa de Lauretis
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. – Sergey Brin
I knew I’d always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, ‘Well, I’d rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one’. – Sarah Waters
I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work. – Toby Young
Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world. – Yair Lapid