Professors bring years of study, teaching, and inquiry to the ideas they share, offering perspectives that bridge classrooms, laboratories, and communities. Their quotes capture curiosity, rigor, and the courage to revise assumptions, whether discussing science, literature, ethics, or everyday learning. Readers can find reflections that challenge, comfort, and inspire thoughtful questions, drawn from voices across disciplines and cultures. Approach these words as starting points: glimpses of expertise balanced with humility, and reminders that knowledge grows through dialogue, evidence, and attentive listening.
"First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf"
"War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it"
"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession"
"The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay"
"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth"
"I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men"