Quotes

• I'm not interested in Philosophy as a source of wisdom. I'm interested in Philosophy as a source of instability and anxiety. People who have the mannerisms associated with wisdom... I don't like them.

  David Albert on 2011-12-09

• If you google this, you'll find some people believe the Hidden Imam is living in the Bermuda Triangle. That is...probably not true.

  Richard Bulliet in America and the Muslim World (HIST W3722) on 2012-01-17

• I'm what you'd call an acquired taste.

  David Yerkes in Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy (Literature Humanities) (HUMA C1001) on 2012-01-17

• This chalk is inferior. It does what I tell it to and not what I mean. It's like a little computer.

  John Kender in Object-Oriented Programming and Design in Java (COMS W1007) on 2011-10-13

• It's dangerous to write these notes down.

  Troels Jorgensen in Calculus II (MATH V1102) on 2011-11-16

• Do I encourage revolution? Yes. Leave. Get up, go. You all look like poop. It's a beautiful day, go out in the sunshine.

  Marcellus Andrews in Introduction to Economic Reasoning (ECON BC1003) on 2011-11-10

• Works of imagination escape the author's intent.

  Mark Lilla in Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy (Literature Humanities) (HUMA C1001) on 2011-10-27

• Nestor would be always right but always defeated. He's like the Jimmy Carter of Ancient Greece.

  Mark Lilla in Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy (Literature Humanities) (HUMA C1001) on 2011-09-08

• Plutonic love is not erotic.

  Aileen Forbes in Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy (Literature Humanities) (HUMA C1001) on 2011-12-30

• Dearly Beloved, Contrition, Remorse, & Heartburnit [sic] sounds [sic] like one of those untalented trios in vaudeville [sic] consisting of two men and a girl who pretend to parody society ballroom dancers simply because they can't dance very well themselves, you know, the types who simuate adagio and then drop each other...I urge the vigilant among you to look for any howlers in this re-write that you may spot, and report it to me forthwith for a swift correction and an extra blessing from me without demanding any medieval indulgences.

  Valentine  Daniel in Contemporary Civilization (C1101) on 2011-11-11

• Some students complain about working an hour on a problem. I worked for two years on one. Suck it up.

  Jennifer Hom in Calculus III (MATH V1201) on 2011-10-19

• Before eating turkey, they stuck a spoon into the orifice of the bird. Then they pulled...they pulled out some stuffing. I thought to myself, 'white people eat anything.' So happy Thanksgiving everyone.

  Valentine  Daniel in Contemporary Civilization (C1101) on 2011-11-21

• You get the sense that [William] James just wanted to pour a big bag of sand into the oatmeal of liberal goodness.

  Casey Blake in U.S. Intellectual History 1865 to Present (HIST W3478) on 2011-09-21

• There are two things I will never understand: cable TV and mild salsa. I mean, what is the point?

  Randall Balmer in Evangelicalism on 2011-12-08

• I don't want to spoil Christmas early, but...the temperature of a gas comes from the kinetic energy of its particles bumping into each other.

  Charles Hailey in Introduction to Mechanics and Thermodynamics (PHYS C1401) on 2011-12-07

• This is merely an epistolary splinter tolet [sic] you know that I am truly sorry that I couldn't make it to class yesterday and even more sorry that I was unable to let you know earlier than I did my impending absence.  In the great scheme of things, the mishap that prevented me from being there with you was that I seemed to have cracked a couple of molars in trying bite down on boiled and sun-dried seedlings of the palmyrah palm.

  Valentine  Daniel in Contemporary Civilization (C1101) on 2011-11-18

• Some of our politicians claim they talked to God last night and he said, 'run, boy, run'.

  Valentine  Daniel in Contemporary Civilization (C1101) on 2011-10-12

• Dogs, humans, and even mountains have habits, you know

  Valentine  Daniel in Contemporary Civilization (C1101) on 2011-11-16

• Why can't it just be turtles all the way down? ...turtles on turtles on turtles.

  Tyler Bickford in Contemporary Civilization (C1101) on 2011-10-26

• why anyone would ever vote Republican is astonishing. You would need to take an abnormal psych class to understand that.

  Mason Gentzler in Introduction to Major Topics in Asian Civilizations: East Asia (ASCE V2002) on 2011-12-14

• Some people got continuous and differentiable confused. If that was you, straighten it out.

  Jennifer Hom in Calculus III (MATH V1201) on 2011-11-10

• Now I would like to decorate this problem....

  Andrew Millis in Physics I: Mechanics and Relativity (PHYS C1601) on 2011-11-29

• One day in grad school I pronounced Epipsychidion incorrectly and somebody snickered. That's the grad school equivalent of getting beaten up on the playground.

  Erik Gray in Romantic Poetry on 2011-11-17

• In Italian, everything is rhyme. In Italian, you order a pizza and boom! You've made a poem!"

  Erik Gray in Romantic Poetry on 2011-11-01

• I wish I didn't have to tell you about all this adultery...but I can't stop. Oopsie."

  Erik Gray in Romantic Poetry on 2011-11-03

• Is everyone here over eighteen? Anyone over twenty one? Good, because you'll see, the vibration of this molecule is quite...erotic."

  Robert Beer in General Chemistry I (C1403) on 2011-12-07

• Uh-oh. There are a few too many rape scenes in here for my taste.

  Alan Timberlake on 2011-11-11

• Now here's another way to insert it that's really cute....

  Jack Norton on 2011-11-29

• Let us consider our friend the massless rod....

  Andrew Millis in Physics I: Mechanics and Relativity (PHYS C1601) on 2011-11-29

• Saying the Messiah was born in Nazareth is like us saying he was born in Jersey City

  Edward Mendelson in Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy (Literature Humanities) (HUMA C1001) on 2011-11-22