Universities Quotes

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.

Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.