211 Quotes About Academia

She (Olivo) called me the day before she left (for La Academia USA). She was so excited and her enthusiasm was contagious.

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.

These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.

This outstanding group of environmental experts, representing diverse perspectives and expertise, will help Wells Fargo bring a thoughtful and balanced approach to integrating environmental considerations into our business practices. They'll also be our eyes and ears in industry, academia and non-governmental organizations to make sure we anticipate emerging environmental issues in our communities and globally.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormous tapestry of existence. Where did our universe come from? How special is our world, and how special are we? We allocate tens of billions of dollars annually to NASA, NSF and academia in search of the answers.

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.