I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

If people want to pigeon hole you then just view it as an opportunity to prove them wrong and show that you are different to what they think you are.

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.

So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.

To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.

I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.

Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.

Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror

The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.

Find advocates! Having advocates and people who will tell your story for you will only help you get noticed faster by more people.

What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.