John Forbes Nash Jr. Quotes

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

As it happens, although I was at MIT on the faculty full-time for 18 years and then at Harvard for another 16, so I've always been in full-time academia, I always found it was both beneficial for my research and beneficial for the other work to be involved in the practicing community.

I served as Dean until 1974, when I stepped down to return to full time teaching and research.

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

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 would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.

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

Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country.

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

In 1973, I was offered a professorship at the University of California, San Diego. Although I was certainly not unhappy at Nottingham, I had been there over twenty years from starting undergraduate studies to Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics, and I thought that a change of scene was worth considering.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students.

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

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

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

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

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

I was promoted associate professor in early 1970 and full professor in October of the same year. I spent the two spring semesters of 1972 and 1974 as visiting professor at Harvard University, giving lectures and directing a research project.

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.