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Scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.

Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.

It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts.

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free
society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.