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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My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. – Thomas Huxley

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The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth. – Thomas Huxley

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. – Bertrand Russell

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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. – Harriet Martineau

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. – Plato

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. – John Cheever

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