104 Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

Anyone who is willing for an instant to credit the claims of astral influence is a walking demonstration of the tragic failure of science education.

Any female who thinks that she needs a female in front of her in order to learn as much as she can, or to envision a career in a particular field, has declared herself a follower rather than a pioneer - and a follower based on a characteristic irrelevant to intellectual achievement.

A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'

The pressure to take irrelevant characteristics like race and sex into account in academic science is dangerous enough. But Silicon Valley continues to remake itself in the image of the campus diversity bureaucracy.

Official scientific organizations have all turned obsessively to the diversity agenda.

The Obama Justice Department put more police departments under federal control for alleged systemic bias than any previous administration had.

Before you can challenge a received narrative about the past, you should be expert in its established contours.

The most urgent task of any college is the transmission of knowledge, pure and simple.

This ideal of the Socratic academy is so reasonable that it may seem foolish to quibble with it. Of course, students should engage with ideas that they disagree with rather than silencing anything that challenges their worldview.