Scholars and Academics
- Thomas Johnson (botanist) (c. 1600–1644), English apothecary and botanist
- Thomas Johnson (scholar) (died 1737), English cleric and academic
- Thomas Johnson (botany teacher) (1863–1954), English authority on plants; professor of Botany at University College Dublin
- Thomas E. Johnson (born 1948), geneticist and biogerontologist at the University of Colorado
- Thomas Howard Johnson, Director of the Naval Postgraduate School's Program for Culture & Conflict Studies
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“Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspect they differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
—Stephanie Coontz (b. 1944)