Pedantic Quotations

I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else.

Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.

It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.

Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an university: but the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

It's a good read, ... I was determined not to do a how-to book in a pedantic way. There are a lot of lessons in there that could be of value to people.

Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

Get but that "peace of God which passeth understanding," and the questions of the understanding will cease from puzzling and pedantic scruples be at rest..