“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.”
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
