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Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year. -- Derek Bok
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life. -- Ken Robinson
The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed. -- Evan Osnos
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre. -- John Clute
...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called dillettanti, physicians, jurists, and so forth.Lamenting the fragmentary time left to a professor has remaining after fulfilling his teaching duties. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics. -- James Cronin
I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor. -- Tony Campolo
I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985. -- J. Philippe Rushton
Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe. -- Pankaj Mishra
My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department. -- Paul D. Boyer
I was a professor at Princeton University. And, in that capacity, I studied for many years the role of financial crisis in the economy. -- Ben Bernanke
In 1952, I was appointed Professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Physics Institute, with very good students waiting for a thesis advisor. -- Wolfgang Paul
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative. -- Allan Bloom
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. -- Thomas Carlyle
In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester. -- Robert Robinson
I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook. -- Kathy Reichs
You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university. -- Carlos Slim
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. -- Albert Camus
I was promoted associate professor in early 1970 and full professor in October of the same year. I spent the two spring semesters of 1972 and 1974 as visiting professor at Harvard University, giving lectures and directing a research project. -- Jean-Marie Lehn
In the 1950s, the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva was lucky enough to receive each summer for several months the visit of Jean Weigle. He was the former professor of experimental physics at the University of Geneva. -- Werner Arber
There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that's basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors. -- Ben Shapiro
Coaches have got to be given rank within the university so that you can't fire a coach unless you go through an academic committee, just as you would with a professor. If coaches are to have any stability and security, they need to be treated like an English professor. -- Joe Paterno
By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism, and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints. -- Ben Shapiro
My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university, -- Jose Manuel Barroso
In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered. -- Donald A. Norman

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