If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

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.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.