Sebastian Thrun Quotes

I'm a child of academics.

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

We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

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

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

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

Universities are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry

My brother has a Ph.D. in biochemistry, which I find so totally impressive.

My dad got a job as a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. He teaches biology and genetics. My dad has been obsessed with science his whole life. Both my paternal grandparents were illiterate bamboo farmers, so he really worked his way up and then got a Ph.D., full ride and everything, from universities in America.

I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.

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

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.

Growing up, I've always kinda been into academics.

When I was in grad school, I wanted to be in academia forever.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.

I've said all along it's a humbling experience being at UCLA. Extremely proud, extremely blessed to be at an institution with all this tradition.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

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.

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.

As an instructor at Alexandria University, I did research that was published in international journals. Although I left to pursue a doctorate in the United States, it was not for want of a good life.