Quotes of: Research-universities Keyword

The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.

Life

Keep an open mind. Only an open mind is big enough to contain the secrets of the universe.

Life

When I make a photograph I feel that I hold a piece of the universe in my hands.

Life

Give me the positions and velocities of all the particles in the universe, and I will predict the future.

Life

The Universal Consciousness's feeling is unqualified love for all of its creatures,no matter how foolish and desperate they act.

Love

The word is a prism through which the two beams shot from heart and head are refracted into the colours of the Universe.

Life

The challenge of the writer is to transform—artistically and imaginatively—a unique personal experience into a universal, meaningful story.

Life

When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.

Walter Mosley

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

Zubin Mehta

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

Jamie Lee Curtis

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

Jack Welch

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.

James Welch

A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.

Matthew Fox

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

Martin Ryle

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

Natalie Massenet

I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.

Rachel Cusk

My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.

Basmah bint Saud

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

Nawal El Saadawi

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

Karin Slaughter