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The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a stor

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

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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Huxley

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