The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results. – John George Nicolay
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. – Thomas Huxley
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view. – Max Planck
Every success story has a parent who says, over my dead body. Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when youre acting the fool, you know I worry about you sometimes. – Bill Cosby
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. – W. Somerset Maugham
