Jeffrey C. Hall Quotes

I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.

After receiving my Ph.D. in 1957, I worked at Columbia and then from 1959 to 1966 at Berkeley.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.

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

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.

I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development.

Resume? I wish I had a resume. And if I did, I wouldn't scrub anything from it. Who cares?

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

Today, if I could get a job, with face tattoos, being a professor, I would do that. I don't know what university would hire me, but that's my passion.

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.

I finished my Ph.D. at Berkeley in November 1987 and took a position as an independent fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in January 1988.

The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.

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.

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in 2010 for Los Angeles.

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry.

I'd update my resume so you're ready for any outcome.

The best jobs will go to the best educated people.

It’s harder and harder to get a job if you just have a strong back. You need an education.

I have not the advantage of a classical education, and no man should, in my judgement, accept a degree he cannot read.

We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.

Employers are looking for individuals who can tell a story about what they bring to a particular company, and people with an understanding of that have a much better chance of getting to where they want to go.