Quotes about Academia

Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber. I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people. Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant. Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing. Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something. There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence in speaking them. That kind of assurance is death for an artist. A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it. Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated connections within the physical sciences, but formal studies isolated each branch of science.�� I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vinci's such as access to more information, materials, and methods. In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite. They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor. Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they're taught in academia, and (2) doesn't mix in the hard-to-measure stuff that may be more important. That is a mistake I've tried all my life to avoid, and I have no regrets for having done that. It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works. I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second. Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted. I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.