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Alright we can break that purple bond--the Barney Bond... I'll bring in disgusting zoomorphic creatures into the lecture if I have too.
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Daniel S. Kemp, 5.12 - Organic Chemistry I (Fall 1998)
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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(Kemp frequently uses colored chalk to denote different chemical bonds.)
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"So if you ever want to solve differential equations with me on a Saturday night, I'm free... I know all about your orgies."
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Gian-Carlo Rota, 18.03 - Differential Equations
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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In Memoriam (1932-1999)
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On making polymers: "If you put two shrews in a cage and don't give them enough to eat... you'll find that in the morning you have a slightly larger shrew. And, although this hasn't been done to a larger extent, if you keep going you can assume that each time, you'll get a larger and larger shrew. So, if you don't feed this carbocation..."
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Daniel S. Kemp, 5.12 - Organic Chemistry I (Fall 1998)
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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Another one of Kemp's animal analogies...
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So say you have a pen full of... camels... and there is a small hole in the fence, and you want to find out how often they go through the fence, and say the other side of the fence is the desert, so once the camels are through the fence they are free. So the camel keeper arranges a way such that camels that get through the hole are sent right back. But say some of the camels have wings, only you can't see the wings cause they are invisible... Well that's exactly what we have here.
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Daniel S. Kemp, 5.12 - Organic Chemistry I (Fall 1998)
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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Kemp in one of his usual animal analogies... I forget what he was originally talking about though.
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"Do you want to see a one-sided surface?"
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Hartley Rogers, Jr., 18.02 - Multivariable Calculus
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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Professor Rogers in the process of taking his belt off before an astonished audience. He created a Mobius strip.
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So that is the story of Jack Baldwin, a chemist who worked at MIT, who is now Sir Jack Baldwin of Oxford. He's moved up in the world... or not, depending on how you look at it.
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Daniel S. Kemp, 5.12 - Organic Chemistry I (Fall 1998)
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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S&M stands for starting materials, but of course it can have another connotation.
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Daniel S. Kemp, 5.12 - Organic Chemistry I (Fall 1998)
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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You see these two long hydrocarbons lying against each other, spoon style.
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Daniel S. Kemp, 5.12 - Organic Chemistry I (Fall 1998)
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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"Let's hit it with the chain rule until it DIES."
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David Benney, 18.023 - Multivariable Calculus with Applications
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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"If you were as smart as I am -which you aren't- you'd approach the problem this way... "
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David Benney, 18.023 - Multivariable Calculus with Applications
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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I <expletive deleted> hate Keanu Reeves.
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Lee Nave, 18.06 - Linear Algebra (Spring 2000)
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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Said out of the blue while lecturing linear algebra (think Matrix)...
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"I'm turned on!"
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Hartley Rogers, Jr., 18.02 - Multivariable Calculus
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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Said in a salacious tone of voice to a freshman girl sitting in the front row of a lecture hall, after his microphone was finally activated.
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After finishing giving a lecture on public-key cryptography...
"According to the US Government, I wasn't allowed to teach any non-citzens how this works. Who here is not a US citizen?"
*some people in the class raise their hands, the professor raises his own hand*
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Eric Grimson, 6.001 - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (S
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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This was back when it was still illegal to export encryption protocols outside the United States. The professor is Canadian.
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"You should go home and *expose* youself to the text."
* chuckles from the audience *
"Why not? You're going to be by yourself anyway!"
* more chuckles *
* he pauses, turns away from the board *
"Although... it's much more fun in groups."
* raucous laughter ensues *
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Hartley Rogers Jr., 18.02 - Multivariable Calculus (Fall 1998)
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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Hartley Rogers philosophy on studying. :)
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The transcendence of the ego? What in the world does that mean?
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Dr. Rob Brady, Ethics 350
Stetson University, DeLand, FL
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Dr. Brady on Sartre.
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One time, I remember, I was pulled over for drag racing.
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Dr. Rob Brady, Ethics 350
Stetson University, DeLand, FL
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More of Dr. Brady's driving habits. What this has to do with Ethics, we'll never know...
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Don't get your hopes up, don't set high aims for yourself. don't try to be the best or strive for excellence. be mediocre, that's the best advice i can give you.
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Omar Garra, Hebrew
The Orthodox Arab College, Haifa, Israel
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submitted: March 13, 2003 |
an inspirational man. also quite disturbed mentally.
(not exactly as he said, but u get the point)
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We shall all strive to be better potatoes...
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Dr. Rachel Blas, Introduction to Psychology
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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Explaining Roger`s theory of the Self...
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Why is that? Oh, it`s only to confuse students. Unfortunately, that is how a Drosofila embryo develops...
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Prof. Asher gat, Embryonic Development
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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If only we could change that...
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"This packet of biscuits will represent program flow, and these boiled eggs will be error messages..."
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Dr Stephen Jarvis, CS118 Programming for CS
University of Warwick, Coventry,
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*Sigh* Class Demonstrations
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"I once had a class, and I asked them what would be the most degrading thing to have happened to you. They said a rectal exam. So that would be an end."
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Eli Hirsch, BioMedical Ethics
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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This from the guy who gave an entire lecture on the immorality (or lack there of) of Bestiality.
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"Let's get going my Spleen."
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Eli Hirsch, Personality Idenity
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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"Yes, I try to reduce all Philosphy to trivility. I have tenure, I don't care."
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Eli Hirsch, Personality Idenity
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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"If you believe something which is false, but it leads you to a true conclusion, the whole thing is true because false conditional true, is true." -Steve
"What is that, Logic For Poets?" -Hirsch
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Eli Hirsch, Theory of Knowledge
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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You take a monkey [who is third in social order], inject him with testosterone... give him a ton... enough testosterone to grow antlers and a beard... You'll find he's still subservient to monkeys one and two, but he has become a total bastard to four and five.
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Daniel S. Kemp, 5.12 - Organic Chemistry I
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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What this has to do with organic chemistry, I don't remember anymore.
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