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Quote by Thomas Huxley
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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Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. – Thomas Huxley

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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. – T. S. Eliot

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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. – Abbott L. Lowell

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The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life. – Ernst Mach

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Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. – George Henry Lewes

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