“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”
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Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.