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It Is Not So Very Important For A Person To Learn Facts. For That He Does Not Really Need A College. He Can Learn Them From Books. The Value Of An Education In A Liberal Arts College Is Not Learning Of Many Facts But The Training Of The Mind To Think Something That Cannot Be Learned From Textbooks.

If One Asks The Whence Derives The Authority Of Fundamental Ends, Since They Cannot Be Stated And Justified Merely By Reason, One Can Only Answer: They Exist In A Healthy Society As Powerful Traditions, Which Act Upon The Conduct And Aspirations And Judgments Of The Individuals; They Are There, That Is, As Something Living, Without Its Being Necessary To Find Justification For Their Existence.

The Only Thing We Can Be Certain Of In This Life Is That We Can Be Certain Of Nothing.

The Strongest Force In The Universe Is Compound Interest.

The Scientific Theorist Is Not To Be Envied. For Nature, Or More Precisely Experiment, Is An Exorable And Not Very Friendly Judge Of His Work. It Never Says "yes" To A Theory. In The Most Favorable Cases It Says "maybe," And In The Great Majority Of Cases Simply "no." If An Experiment Agrees With A Theory It Means For The Latter "maybe," And If It Does Not Agree It Means "no." Probably Every Theory Will Some Day Experience Its "no" - Most Theories, Soon After Conception.