A Quote by Tony Attwood

Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the comment that not only are universities a 'cathedral' for worship of knowledge, they are also 'sheltered workshops' for the socially challenged.

Tony Attwood

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Tony Attwood
British - Psychologist
Born: February 9, 1952

Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

Dean Koontz

I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of specialized areas. I think the vast majority of young people should be going through non-university, post-secondary training.

Stephen Harper

Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.

Dan Shechtman

Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

Kapil Sibal

I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that the net result of success would be to close the universities but leave the nation unaffected--at least, for quite a long time. Nor do I find it easy to believe that the rebels, as intelligent as most of them were, seriously expected that they could keep the universities alive as corporate bodies, once they had control of them, if they made the fundamental alterations in organization and role that they proposed to.

Muriel Beadle

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

Ludwig von Mises

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

Thomas Piketty

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

Tom Hayden

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

Cheryl Strayed

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

Mike Pence

There are a lot of universities that are as dangerous with the indoctrination of the children as terrorists are in Iran or North Korea. We have been setting up reeducation camps. We call them universities.

Glenn Beck

Some colleges and universities in Virginia have chosen to ban concealed carry, and we believe that those universities have created more dangerous environments for their students, faculty, and staff.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

Much of the early engineering development of digital computers was done in universities. A few years ago, the view was commonly expressed that universities had played their part in computer design, and that the matter could now safely be left to industry. [...] Apart from the obvious functions of keeping in the public domain material that might otherwise be hidden, universities can make a special contribution by reason of their freedom from commercial considerations, including freedom from the need to follow the fashion.

Maurice Wilkes

Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute.

James E. Rogers

I want to invest in research. Research is great. Providing funding to universities and think tanks is great. But investing in companies? Absolutely not.