Sheldon Lee Glashow Quotes

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

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

We believe that Liberty will redefine what is considered an academically prestigious university in the future.

The University of Houston is a program that should have national relevance.

The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.

We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.

Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, 'The Dante Club.' I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it's such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.

London's top colleges attract the best young talent from around the world; they're truly a national asset.

When you take the best of universities in the world, all of them have research and education contiguous; the person who teaches you could be a Nobel laureate. Some subjects are at the tri-junction of many subjects put together.

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

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.

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.

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

Create a great university and wait 200 years.

Maryland is one of the greatest schools that we have in this country.

Harvard is nerd rehab. You have to check yourself in. Those who seek a school filled with self-proclaimed 'nerds,' seek elsewhere. Dropping the H bomb may brand you as an intellectual or a Kennedy. But it will not give you much nerd cred. And that's a good thing.

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