Top 100 Quotes About Phd
#1. Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too smart gets in the way -
Charles Stross
#2. I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.
Archie Panjabi
#3. The difference between an ignorant fool shoveling manure in a bullpen, and a fool with a PhD, is that the fool with the PhD can shovel more of it, faster.
Dimitris Mita
#4. Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer.
Chaz Bundick
#5. He has a calsium deposit on the medulla oblongota of his brain, but he is a brilliant man. This man has a BA, an MA from Havard, and a PhD from Oxford. He's a brilliant man I tell you, Mean Gene.
Lou Albano
#6. Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.
Kevin Rudd
#7. When it comes to psychopaths, there is no medication. There is no treatment. There is no cure. There are only prisons. - JENI GREGORY, PHD, LICSW, CCM, CCTP
Robert Dugoni
#8. Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.
Mark Kennedy
#9. The last thing you want to do is turn into a nerd like your father, nose always buried in a book, living like a tramp just to get one of those useless PhD thingies. And look where his posh Cambridge education got him - a flipping poet, for chrissakes!
Tabitha Suzuma
#10. A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.
Keith Devlin
#11. I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.
Jerry Fodor
#12. If you look out at nature, you find that as you tend to see suspended animation, you tend to see immortality. - MARK ROTH, PHD (CELL BIOLOGIST)
Blake Crouch
#13. I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I loved dogs.
Michael Donaghy
#14. Every professor worth his PhD should have a fireplace in his study.
Nora Roberts
#15. And her nephew, getting his PhD at Wisconsin, was declared insane and committed to a state asylum when they discovered he was a leader in the Communist Party there.
Lily King
#16. the well-paid pickings for PhD Program Dropouts Who Only Have Experience Working in Academia were basically nonexistent
Sarah Kuhn
#17. (In 2006, social psychologist Bella DePaulo, PhD, coined the word singlism to mean "the stereotyping, stigmatizing, and discrimination against people who are single.")
Kate Bolick
#18. There is no such thing as phD in swag. Only uni. After learning the principles of swag, one must do their own individual trainibg to increase horizons of their 4 elements of swag. Then comes controlling the swag count that's is released from within.
Batuhan Ibal
#19. Kat is talking to someone else now, a slender brown-skinned boy who's joined the line just behind her. He's dressed like a skater, so I assume he has a PhD in artificial intelligence.
Robin Sloan
#20. The aim of a PhD's to ensure that no one, including your advisor, understands what you're doing after the first couple of years.
China Mieville
#21. Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.
Richard M. Nixon
#23. I got my MBA at Burberry, but I will get my PhD at Apple.
Angela Ahrendts
#24. It's not an advantage to be without a PhD. But it's an advantage not to have taken a PhD because of the things that they do to you to get you into the slot that they want you in.
Joseph Campbell
#25. I also able to graciously survive the PhD from the grace, which comes from prayer, bible reading, extensive story reading, fasting, fellowship, listen to music, daily dance and sacred writing.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#26. I would rather get a PhD than stand to reach for toilet paper. Though some readers might emphasize the similarities between the two activities.
Rhoda Janzen
#28. I am an archaeologist of mature vintage. Rapid descents are not my specialty. I am the plodding type."
~ Grace Madison, PhD.
N.L.B. Horton
#29. PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.
Alexander Chee
#30. When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.
Shannon Lucid
#31. A PhD does not automatically denote wisdom. Merely perseverance.
J. Michael Adams
#32. The PhD student is someone who forgoes current income in order to forgo future income.
Peter Greenberg
#34. A BS in any neuroscience without a master's or PhD was a three-legged dog of a degree: pitiable, adorable, and capable of inspiring applause when it did anything for you at all.
Daryl Gregory
#35. I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.
Deborah Smith
#36. I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?
Nell Irvin Painter
#37. I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't have an MFA, or a PhD, I tend to approach it just through my own practice.
Kate Zambreno
#39. You can invoke neither time nor space nor matter not energy nor the laws of nature to explain the origin of the universe. General relativity points to the need for a cause that transcends those domains. ~Stephen C. Meyer, PHD~
Lee Strobel
#40. Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
Samuel Hall Lord
#41. A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest
Sahndra Fon Dufe
#42. Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD.
Marilyn Johnson
#43. ...a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into how people think and act.
Derrick Jensen
#44. As a person of color, you're in a PhD level racism class, every day. Every day, I'm in a deep racism seminar. And I'm not saying that white people aren't taking that class, but they don't show up that often and they're auditing it.
W. Kamau Bell
#45. I have done so much medical and scientific research Crashing Life I am thinking about putting PhD behind my name or maybe B.S.
Juanita Ray
#46. I recently heard of someone studying the ellipsis (or three dots) for a PhD. And, I have to say, I was horrified. The ellipsis is the black hole of the punctuation universe, surely, into which no right-minded person would willingly be sucked, for three years, with no guarantee of a job at the end.
Lynne Truss
#47. To read an expert contribution on the historical Muhammad by Dr. David Wood (PhD in philosophy, Fordham University), Director of Acts 17 Apologetics and host of Jesus or Muhammad, click here
Nabeel Qureshi
#48. The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.
J. Frank Dobie
#49. At the ed of the hall stood a walnut door with a bronze plaque:
ASCLEPIUS
MD, DMD, DME, DC, DVS, FAAN, OMG, EMT, TTYL, FRCP, ME, IOU, OD, OT, PHARMD, BAMF, RN, PHD, INC., SMH
There may have been more acronyms in the list, but by that point Leo's brain had exploded.
Rick Riordan
#50. Listen, dumb ass, I have a PhD in physics. I can handle 'complicated.' You won't even have to talk slow or use elementary vocabulary.
Jewel E. Ann
#51. I am still enjoying the successful completion of my PhD; taking time to relax, renew, and refocus.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#52. MD stands for money doctor, while PhD, like me, stands for poor hungry doctor.
M.N. Tarazi
#53. The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.
Freeman Dyson
#54. Once you have a PhD, every meeting you go to becomes a doctor's appointment.
Nick Offerman
#55. I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.
Denise Mina
#56. An emulation operating at a speed of ten thousand times that of a biological brain would be able to read a book in a few seconds and write a PhD thesis in an afternoon.
Nick Bostrom
#57. If God gave Abraham a ram to prevent his slaying Isaac, He might stick a donkey in the bush for me to ride up this infernal mountainside."
~ Grace Madison, PhD.
N.L.B. Horton
#58. Get a PHD No, not a doctoral degree. I mean a PHD attitude: Poor, Hungry and Driven.
James Scott Bell
#59. A lot more people will want to hear a 5-minute singing cartoon about Communism in China than will want to read that PhD thesis, and that's the power of it even if a lot of details will be missing - that's the reason something like that often has more impact on society.
Jeffrey Lewis
#60. Many writers are recognized for their PHD mentality
Poor, Hungry and Driven.
Trish Jackson
#61. During my PhD, I was depressed for eight-months, state of deep-worry. The stressful life leads to neglect of spirituality and wellness. I recovered by inspiration of great souls, friends and family. Ever since, I have sought spirituality of soul and well-being over all other things.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#62. I do worry a lot about the time it takes for people to get a PhD, about the difficulty of finding employment, about the difficulty of getting tenure, and generally about the perception that undergraduates have, that this is a very high-risk career to get started.
Louis Menand
#63. Anyway, the trick is seeing what they're trying to hide. What are they trying to draw your eye away from? Figure that out, and you figure out the man. Or woman. But start with men, because they're easier. Women are more of a PhD thing.
Matthew FitzSimmons
#64. This is the guy that's KSM's nephew? What's his issue? DANIEL He's being a dick. BRADLEY If he's trying to outsmart you, tell him about your PhD.
Mark Boal
#66. Conversely, some of the most educated idiots I've ever met have a master's degree or PhD. They couldn't pour urine out of a boot with the instructions written on the heel!
Si Robertson
#67. Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunities.
Stuart J. Russell
#68. The time between Bachelor's degree and a PhD, the median time is over 11 years. So then you're still only on a tenure ladder, you're not tenured. So it generally takes 6 to 8 years after that to get tenure. So that's a very long period of what's essentially apprenticeship, of insecurity.
Louis Menand
#69. By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.
Paul Berg
#70. In the pursuit of greater equality in our education system, from K to PhD, technology access, print literacies, and verbal skill all collide as requirements for even basic participation in an information-based, technology-dependent economy and society.
Adam J. Banks
#71. I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.
Wendy Liebman
#72. I still wanted to go home, but had to enter the tunnel and pray for the best. Every day, I discovered more disadvantages to being a strong woman, although the past week made me feel like Hercules in a burkha.
-Grace Madison, PhD
N.L.B. Horton
#73. Phd dissertations are for people who can't write books.
Anonymous
#74. What if our children are all super-bright and I can't understand what they're saying and they look down on me because I haven't got a PhD?
Sophie Kinsella
#75. BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
Bobby Knight
#77. I don't know how to be a boyfriend," he warns me.
I cock a brow at him, smiling. "That's too bad ... since I have a PhD in girlfriendology from the University of So Many Feelings.
Ann Aguirre
#78. What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.
Barbara Delinsky
#79. Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an MFA in Poetry, and a year's worth of a PhD, Stein was an author I had to discover on my own. She wasn't on the syllabus anywhere in all that time.
Laura Mullen
#80. Well, of course it was Billy screwing with his mind. That's what Billy did. Dear Old Dad had a PhD in mind screwing. The question was, was it just Billy screwing with his mind?
Barry Lyga
#81. an MIT AI PhD can generally walk alone into an investor meeting wearing a coconut-shell bra, perform a series of improvised birdcalls, and walk out with $1 million.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus
#82. Becky Chabot, a PhD candidate in religious and theological studies at the University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology, centered her dissertation on the social ethics of professional club soccer (and her fan typology) on the DBG,
Phil West
#83. If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book ... it has sort of it's own narrative that one could analyze and write literary criticism about.
Tao Lin
#84. You cannot conquer the mind of a man, if you do not know his heart and you cannot win over his heart, if so you do not know his mind.
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#85. There is much of our world, we do not see. So, it is easy to assume nothing exciting happens in our quadrant of space, but we are dead wrong. Crazy, impossible things occur all the time. We simply need to know where to look.
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#86. Every leader attracts a different type of follower from the left or the right, from the lowest or the highest class. Every leader unwittingly attracts certain stereotypes that fuel their underlying agenda.
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#87. Arthur Compton became my graduate advisor. He was the ideal graduate advisor for me: he came into my research room only once during my graduate career and usually had no idea how I was spending my time.
Luis W. Alvarez
#88. When we use words like biophotonic matrix, we rarely consider a word can be a reality in itself...
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#89. When circumstances feel as if they are turning surreal, like the current political situation. We can be guaranteed, our intuition will lead the way to the truth, as long as we don't live in a world of wishful thinking.
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#90. There is no such thing as divine law enforced by mankind. Cosmic laws are self-sustaining mechanisms that do not require our assistance to function.
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#91. Corruption in any institution can only take hold, if organised elements within it act on delusional beliefs that do not benefit the whole.
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#92. What used to be communal living has become socio-political manipulation on a planetary scale. Everything has become a tool to engineer our consciousness development at every step, ranging from breathing to food to water...
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#94. t is rational to be weary of mass migration. Logically thinking, it signals an awareness that we do not produce a sufficient quantity of resources to feed, home and clothe our own, so how can we become an idyllic multicultural society, which provides equally for everyone?
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#95. We must admit that by approving multiculturalism in its current, misguided form, we are paving the road to White, Black, Indian and Asian genocide faster than the Sixth Mass Extinction.
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#96. All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#97. If want to succeed, you must work to overcome the obstacles on your path.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#98. Don't look with your eyes.
Don't think with your mind.
Know with your heart.
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#100. Women that speak against Islam are being labelled as islamophobic, as though our right to free speech is disregarded, when it comes down to an oppressive regime, which does not even recognise women as human...
Anita B. Sulser PhD
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