Richard Thaler Quotes

I don’t know anyone in government who would read the academic journals that policy school professors get rewarded for publishing in.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.

I was talking to my dad, who's a neurosurgeon. He had this academic paper he wanted to publish. Journals take about 18 months to publish a paper, and he just wanted to get things up there.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.

A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.

I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your calculations.

I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.

I was quite nerdy at school. I skipped a year and won a scholarship in chemistry.

I'm a child of academics.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't popular - I was a nerd.

Well, when I was a teenager I was terribly bookish. I was very studious.

I grew up on Harvard Square and I watched 50-year old men walking around with green book bags slung over their shoulders going for their fourth PhD, never having left the world of academia to alleged reality.

I study all the greats.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.