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It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic. (Quote by - Johan Huizinga)

The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department. (Quote by - Paul D. Boyer )

I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes. (Quote by - Prince William )

The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed (Quote by - William James)

In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools (Quote by - Doris Lessing)

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging. (Quote by - Adam Schiff)

It is beginning to be hinted that we are a nation of amateurs. (Quote by - Lord Rosebery)

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. (Quote by - Flannery O'Connor)

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer. (Quote by - James Tobin)

You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses. (Quote by - John Hickenlooper)

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics. (Quote by - John Henry Carver)

Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it. (Quote by - Michael N. Castle)

I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year. (Quote by - David Friedman)

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. (Quote by - Elizabeth Moon)

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. (Quote by - Emma Bonino)

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist (Quote by - Robert Maynard Hutchins)

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice. (Quote by - Michael N. Castle)

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose. (Quote by - Jeffrey Bernard )

And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along. (Quote by - Betty Hill)

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. (Quote by - W H Auden)

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department. (Quote by - Beth Henley)

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. (Quote by - Maya Lin )

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's. (Quote by - Carol P. Christ)

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