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Lecturer Quotes

Over the years the lecturers here at Warwick have delivered one great lecture after another, sometimes they even find the time to say something funny. WMS presents to you some of the best quotes from our favourite lecturers.

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  • Charudatta Hajarnavis

    • "Quiet please, your life depends on this [whilst talking about Complex Analysis]" - 1995
    • "[When discussing the axiom of choice] If I was a set theorist I would have to resign right now and walk out." - 2003

  • Gavin Brown

    • "I'm really environmental, I'm going to recycle this notation." - 2005
    • "I don't know what I've written here...erm, aaha, you know I think I'm going to rewrite this. It's clearly the work of an idiot." - 2005
    • "OK, now listen to this. This is really incredible. It will literally blow your mind. It's absolutely fantastic. [Proceeds to talk about something boring to do with complex numbers.]" - 2005

  • Robert Kerr

    • "Jabber! Jabber! Jabber! ... I can't teach" - 2004

  • Mark Newton

    • "[On Twin Paradox] And if his twin sister was to go to the other side of the university and reverse (without signalling)... " - 2004
    • "Beth accelerates from rest to a speed of 0.8 times the speed of light in a negligible time; i.e. she floors it" - 2007

  • David Elworthy

    • "[talking about trying to prove a theorem]Here you might give up... or decide this is sport and try again. " - 2005
    • "If not, try again and get a good feel tomorrow." - 2005
    • "It's immediate when you think about it for a little bit." - 2005
    • "I can put whatever symbols I want on the board as long as I stick to the laws of decency." - 2005
    • "We've differentiated twice now so we're unstoppable." - 2005
    • "We can apply this theorem [points] ... which I've rubbed off." - 2005
    • "This function is going up and down like the clappers." - 2005
    • "Damn, I got it wrong. Monkey nuts." - 2005
    • "OK, you can go now and à dream happily." - 2005
    • "This is a really interesting question, the perfect sort for discussing with friends over a glass of water or something." - 2005
    • "Did I just write a lambda? I meant r. Arr. Arrrrrrr. [Circles it a few times, and draws an arrow saying "arr".] No, wait, I spelt it wrong. [Adds gh to the end so it becomes "arrgh".]" - 2005
    • "Now, all this happens because of that proof up there [points to something he wrote high up on the board that he can reach] I'll see if I can get it [he throws a piece of chalk up at it, which doesn't leave any mark, and falls back down before people can see what he is talking about]." - 2005
    • "Now it's time to use L'Hopital's Rule; so let's wheel out the old geezer!" - 2005
    • "This is a lovely theorem." - 2006
    • "I've put we "know" in quotations because we dont." - 2006
    • "You don't have to call a function sally if you don't want to, you could call it Cuthbert or anything you like really as long as you stick to the laws of decency and...errr, you don't even have to do that. [Demonstrating that a confusing looking function was just notation by calling it Sally instead.]" - 2006
    • "[After hearing giggles at the mention of a Lipschitz function:] Well, I suppose Lipschitz was some... one of these... people." - 2006
    • "Not one of these 8's upside down; that's not existing, that's just being in a sort of sublime state. [on infinity]" - 2006

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