Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.
In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.
The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike
For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
Today, the entire country is an immense University.
In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.
People who spend their working hours in a lab or research library or a classroom might be intent primarily on keeping or advancing their elite positions, thereby lending tacit support to power structures. Or they might not be.
