Quotes of: Columbia-university Keyword

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.

George Packer

In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.

Denise Mina

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

Ken MacLeod

While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

Terry Pratchett

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

Marta Kristen

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

Evgeny Morozov

The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

Ram Dass

I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006.

Ailyn Perez

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.

Joseph Jarman

I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. I...

Richard Carmona

It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.

Laura Hillenbrand

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

Elie Wiesel

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

George Santayana

Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

Terry Eagleton

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

Kate Adie

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

Ang Lee

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

Aleister Crowley

The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works.

Antony Garrett Lisi

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

Azar Nafisi

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

Hubert H. Humphrey