One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read. Nathalie Sarraute
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
If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is! Johnny Ball
Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country. William Kunstler
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
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. George Santayana
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone. David Brooks
We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education. Nigel Short
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife. Philip Larkin
