Jim Peebles Quotes

To have real issues to delve into, research-wise, always makes it a lot more satisfying to me. I can pull from a lot of resources and put them into my work and just have as much information as possible.

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.

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.

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

I despise research. I think it's a crutch.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.

I think what's so interesting for me is the different roles that I play. I love doing the research, and I love - I feel fortunate in the sense that I get to explore many different worlds, of things that I may not really get to learn a lot about.

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

Study the field that you want to get into and know everything about it.

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.

Doors open to you every time you get a different role. So, yeah, the research is my passion; that's why I keep doing it.

Academic success depends on research and publications.

I get to learn and teach something new everyday.

I think I really benefited from going to college.