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has failed you." | |
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Robert F. Goheen
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| "If your professor wrote it, it"s as near to the truth as you ever
need to get." | |
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John Watson
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| "That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our
primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must
rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of
transmission, and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to
organize this information once it has been amassed ? to assimilate it,
find meaning in it, and assure its survival for use by generations to
come." | |
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Vartan Gregorian
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| "The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but the transference of bones
from one graveyard to another." | |
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Frank J. Dobie
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| "The university brings out all abilities including
incapability." | |
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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| "This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the
human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may
lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat
it." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation." | |
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Francis Bacon
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