Famous quotes containing the words professor and/or von:
“Indeed, there is hardly the professor in our colleges, who, if he has mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered the difficulties of the wit and poetry of a Greek poet, and has any sympathy to impart to the alert and heroic reader.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise we would not continue to search.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)