Academic success depends on research and publications.

— Philip Zimbardo

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

— Paul Nurse

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

— Thomas Sowell

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

— Alan Dershowitz

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

— Dave Davies

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

— John Ortberg

Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.

— Natalie Babbitt

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.

— Steven Pinker