Frederick Reines Quotes

I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

I'm a professor of economics and associate head of the MIT Department of Economics.

I did go to university and I did teach school for a year.

This line of research continued when I went, and brought my research group with me, to the new University of California, Irvine campus in 1966 to become the founding Dean of the School of Physical Sciences.

I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.

Every summer, I regret that I didn't become a college teacher. Such a sweet life! With all that vacation time! You'll never get me to believe that being a tenured professor at a good college is anything but Heaven on earth.

A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

Founded when Abraham Lincoln believed education could lead the nation out of its darkest days, Ohio State now provides a powerful platform of interdisciplinary academic programs, world-class scholars, outstanding students, and extensive research capabilities.

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

I had come from Los Angeles - I had been there a partner of Gruen Associates, a large Los Angeles firm - and when the possibility of becoming a dean at Yale came, it was a very appropriate moment in my life. I was interested in a number of issues that I could not pursue while in a firm like Gruen's.

Well, I think that, you know, there's often two ways to become a scientist. One is to actually get your Ph.D. and then the other is to run for office.

I had gotten a master's degree in administration supervision with it in mind that I would some day be a professor, then get a doctorate degree and move up and eventually be president of a university.

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

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't want to go back to the corporate world. So I became an academic.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.

An important event in my scientific life has been my appointment as a Professor at the College de France in 1973.

Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level.