Academic Recognition Quotes

At the commencements I attended, graduates were classified by their academic rankings. Outstanding academic performance was noted in the programs and awarded with special honors.

When I was 24, I won a Rhodes Scholarship.

My daughter was never offered 'Student Of The Year 2.'

I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.

Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma if you're right. And if you're really lucky, you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation.

I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

If two scientists are giving their papers at a symposium, and one of them is just naturally better at talking to the public or talking to a group of people, that scientist is liable to get more attention - in fact, I'm told that they do get more attention - than the one who's a little more stiff about it. Well, that's not good for science.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

When I was in high school, I lettered in math. The only thing that was important was football. There were two other letters that were awarded each year. One was in math and one was in science. I got the math one. But you didn't put it on a letter sweater and wear it around because they'd be throwing you in a wastebasket upside down on your head.

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one that everyone puts forward, and they prognosticate that the straight-A person is the one most likely to succeed, because that's the way the school system is constructed and conceived.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.

Academia does not provide many opportunities for immediate gratification. You work for two years on a project, it takes two more years to get it published, and then you start hoping someone might read it.

I did make National Honors Society in high school.

It is very humbling to receive the Fields Medal. The words of a Fields Medallist carry a lot of weight within mathematics - for instance, in framing future directions of research - which means that I have to watch what I say more carefully now!

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.

You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.