Faculty Quotes - Page 3

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.

The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine tuning of the universe. For example, Freeman Dyson, a Princeton faculty member, has said, 'Nature has been kinder to us that we had any right to expect.'

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

Reason is the most active human faculty.

A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of science education and to college and university faculty members who seek to improve their teaching.

I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students and faculty members at the Law School and in the History Department, and to experiencing the rich interdisciplinary environment at the Radcliffe Institute.

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.

I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and their elaboration in various domains, ranging from focused intellectual pursuits to the concerns of the larger society and future generations.

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

I want to have all of my faculties.

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.

Harvard introduced the now famous ad hoc system whereby a group of experts in the field of the faculty member to be promoted are consulted concerning the stature of that scholar. This move made the opinion within the field, rather than the clubby relationship within the department, the determining factor in the promotion of professors.