It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, “Who are we?”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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Hancher Auditorium understood the assignment. 💛🖤 pic.twitter.com/GC8vGSUgmG
— University of Iowa (@uiowa) October 14, 2021
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts is a tidy New England college campus with the high-saturation landscaping typical of well-funded institutions. The hedges are beautifully trimmed, the pathways are swept clean. Red-brick buildings from the 19th century fraternize with high glass facades and renovated interiors.
~ Jordan Kisner via The New York Times Magazine
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Art is a substitute for violence.
~ Rollo May
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Wherever religion is resorted to as a strong drink, and as an escape from the dull, monotonous round of home, those of its ministers who pepper the highest will be the surest to please.
~ Charles Dickens
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"Beware the Ides of March!" -The Soothsayer" -William Shakespeare In ancient Rome, the ides were considered as a deadline day for squaring up debts, but nowadays, the Ides are known as the day of Julius Caesars' assassination. pic.twitter.com/dLfHGRjFP2
— UChicago Admissions (@ThisIsUChicago) March 15, 2023
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