Famous quotes containing the words adam, university, degrees and/or faculties:
“When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?”
—John Ball (hanged 1381)
“The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying?”
—John Berger (b. 1926)