Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them.

Drew Gilpin Faust
Look to the past to help create the future. Look...
Look to the past to help create the future. Look...
Look to the past to help create the future. Look...
Look to the past to help create the future. Look...
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If you are looking for the answer to life's big questions, look to the past. History is full of great examples of people who have tackled the most complicated problems in history. Do not forget science and poetry. Science can inform you about how things work without having to make them yourself. Poetry can give insight into human experience that is impossible to explain through words alone.

Source: This Republic Of Suffering

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