The Visiting Professor Quotes

“Infinity is something like the horizon seen from a ship - no matter how much you advance towards it, it is always beyond your reach. Trying to calculate pi is a going without a getting there.”
― Robert Littell, The Visiting Professor

“I don't know what it was like back in Russia, Mr. Falk, but our undergraduates come to college to party and smoke dope and, excuse the expression, screw around. It's bad enough we interrupt this orgy with classes. Let's not lose our heads and insist the students stay awake in them.”
― Robert Littell, The Visiting Professor

“In Russia we have a proverb--it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”
― Robert Littell, The Visiting Professor

“I was born in Leningrad, but I came here from Saint Petersburg. Physically, the two occupy the same space. Emotionally, they are light years apart.”
― Robert Littell, The Visiting Professor

“People kill for tenure at Steklov. How can you abandon it like that?'

'Everyone in Russia has tenure,' Lemuel observed crabbily. 'The problem is they have tenure in Russia.”
― Robert Littell, The Visiting Professor