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

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.
David Milne

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.
Charles Vest

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
Carter G. Woodson

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
Arthur Erickson

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.
Jane Byrne

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
Mark Strand

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 notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.
Joseph Stiglitz

The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.
Charles Vest

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

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
Fidel Castro

The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.
Tony Randall

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
Robert M. Hutchins

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
Orson Welles

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.
Michael N. Castle

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
David Lodge

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.
Edward Levi

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
Milton Friedman

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.