To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments. ]
I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.
Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
All I wanted was to be a university teacher.
Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.
I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.
The modern university does not exist to teach alone. . . It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament. . . The university rests on the public will and on public appreciation.
There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.
A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.
Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms. And you don't need an NCAA bylaw or an act of Congress to do it - just an active, empowered faculty and some administrators with backbone.
I always wanted to be a comedian. I loved comedy since I was a little kid, and while I was at university I started doing stand up shows. Once I realized that I was good at it I quit college and left although I had six months left. I went to England. I could have done the last six months but I realized that I was better at standup comedy than I was at singing opera.
Babbage. . . gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university. '
Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
I must admit that outside the university, it is difficult to be a pure mathematician. No one in my family understands what I do. My neighbors wonder why I spend all my time in my study scribbling with pencil on a yellow pad of paper instead of going outside to mow the lawn.
You know what FSU stands for, don't you? Free Shoes University.
The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.
I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.
Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.
Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the clouds. The University of Cincinnati is really a possibility of hope; it is a rainbow.