Quotes from my Professors

Just your typical university student with hilarious professors. My main blog is here. I'm a Russian Major, Chemistry Minor so many of my own quotes will be related to those subjects.

[raqssaideh-blog]

How do you expect to get home if you don’t have any dance steps to get there?

My ballet professor (via raqssaideh)

[topshotpicks]

When scientists get too honest

> I would love to see more science posts on Tumblr. I particularly liked, “The postdoc who did all the work has since left to start a bakery.”

[quantumaviator]

Science!

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"Now if you still don't get ultra centrifugation, imagine you put a puppy in a blender. All the bones settle to the bottom while all the light things rise to the top!" -Biology lecturer while trying to explain the discovery of the semi conservative nature of DNA replication

[quotesfromprofessors-blog]

You have to be grateful to a bureaucrat who takes bribes, but be afraid of the honest ones. Those are the idealists.

AB referencing Gogol and Dostoevsky

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There is a way to destroy every perfect man: Compare the man next to him to Tolstoy.

AB

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Cod, the fish that ruled the world.

AB

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Shrinking eternity into a lifetime is a dangerous thing.

AB

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You know the perfect Dostoevsky food? Chocolate dipped bacon.

AB

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Women duel with clothes all of the time.

AB

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Scruffy and opinionated-- the worst combination ever.

AB about Dostoevsky

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"Look, there he is shooting! That's Moby Dick!" -AB

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You either kill, be killed, or become Dostoevsky.

AB regarding Siberian hard labor sentences

[justdancingthrulife-blog]

You’re half a count behind. But Callison, you were dancing it.

Doug (via justdancingthrulife)

[tiramango]

Socrates

"Who was Socrates?"

"An asshole."

"A troll."

"Someone who argues for no reason."

"… yes. Today, we call those people ‘philosophers’. Back then he was known as?"

"An asshole?"

"No. A social critic. Well, okay, maybe."

Haha man, Social Foundations of American Education is the best class.

[quotesfromprofessors-blog]

You are young, you have [a] wonderful head-- now develop what is inside that head!

IK

[raqssaideh-blog]

Every decent man of our time is and must be a coward and a slave.

Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (via raqssaideh)

[quotesfromprofessors-blog]

And that's what iPhones are for, looking up quotes about Hemingway!

AB