The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences or Polish Academy of Learning Polish: Polska Akademia Umiejętności), headquartered in Kraków, is one of two institutions in contemporary Poland having the nature of an academy of sciences.
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“Use the stones of another hill to polish your own jade.”
—Chinese proverb.
“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
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