academic quotes

Oversimplification isnowa commontermof reproach in academic discussions; everyone is against oversimplification. But there is no parallel term nearlyas frequently used to describe the opposite phenomenon, which surely occurs as often, if not more so.

- Bennett Maurice Berger
  Authors of their Own Lives (edited by Berger), introduction.

The academic atmosphere, produced mainly by the humanities, is the onlyatmosphere in which pure science can flourish.

- E W Steacie
  Collected inJ D Babbitt (ed) Science in Canada: Selections from the Speeches of E.W. Steacie (1965).