Actual College Professor Quotes

These are from my all time favorite, Dr. Bowman. I took Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer from him. (Some of these are funnier if you know a bit about those two subjects.)

• (Commenting on his lopsided diagram) I should have practiced that, but I didn't.
• That's a typical false observation of an uneducated student.
• I don't have all these pages memorized yet...just the even ones.
• This is Thermodynamics! You need to be excited!
• (On psycology) These fuzzy topics kind of confuse me.
• This derivation alone added $5 to the cost of your book.
• I don't think I've ever used that in my whole life, but I still get excited about it!
• I tried to make this quiz as easy as I could. That's why I used e^z.
• Our purpose in life is to graduate. Who cares about the right answer.
• Probably not something I'd tatoo on my arm.
• If we hadn't assumed that we would have got the wrong answer.
• I refuse to do things I don't understand.
• If I wasn't all knowing, you might not believe it.
• You can almost answer 87% of the world's questions with a T-S diagram.
• I refuse to tell too many jokes in one day. We'll run out before the end of the year. It's called conservation of jokes.
• Would we be good heat transfer people if we used equation 3.89?
• There's nothing sexual about taking a bath in 40 degree water.
• If there was an easier way [to do heat transfer calculations] then maybe sociologists would do it.
• Whenever they put that squiggle (the greek letter zeta) in them (the equations) I just stay away from them.
• Life is a heat transfer problem.
• If someone gives you a "U" give them a big hug.
• These problems use up so much paper, you could almost get subsidized by the paper industry.
• If it's not here, it's there. That's the not-here-but-there rule.
• That was a waste of chalk.
• Since you guys are all not very smart, I can tell you anything I want.