Elaine Miller: [in the middle of a class lecture] Rock stars have kidnapped my son!
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.
Heaven is no permanent abode of morons even though they may gain entry by sheer virtuosity of their deeds."Ashoka Prasad(Hegelian Lecture)
As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.
So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.
The night before a biochemistry class, I read the lecture notes from last year. I look at the pictures in the book. I read some of the book. Now, I've got the general concept. Sure...There's a couple of details to fill in and a few things to memorize...
He had memorized the entire Qur'an and lectured on the nature of evil, which, like a shadow, cannot exist independently of the good silhouettes.
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
You can only fight one man at a time with a sword, but, with a pen, you can compose a lecture to bore legions of enemy troops to death.
The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities.
If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that will probably yield money in some form, whether it's through selling art or selling books or being asked to give a lecture.
A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.
God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in , made God in his image.
To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
I'm sure the other kids wouldn't mind not being lectured by another toddler over the virtues of sharing and the mental benefits of toy blocks.
Tomorrow night I’m giving a lecture on silence and invisibility. Don’t be surprised if I don’t show up.
Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.
I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
