"There is, however, another purpose to which academies……" — Charles Babbage

More Academies Quotes

This quote is filed under Academies Quotes, one of 23 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain… — Baruch Spinoza
• In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues… — Elie Wiesel
• Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But… — Ross Garnaut
• Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. — John Charles Polanyi
• So many people around the world have used nonviolence as a way to resolve a conflict that they faced in… — Arun Manilal Gandhi
• Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that… — Oscar Wilde
• Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress… — Benjamin Franklin
• The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end,… — Edvard Munch
• The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public… — Walter J. Phillips
• A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the… — Itay Talgam
• Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the… — Henry Adams

See all 23 Academies Quotes »