“The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion”
Stephen Jay Gould
“Mosaics, in general, and inscribed mosaics in particular from the 3rd and 4th centuries are very rare, as is the wording of the inscription. This structure is indeed unique and significant to the understanding of the development of early Christianity into a recognized and official religion.”
Yotam Tepper
“No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.”
Francois Mauriac
“Every single [scholarship recipient] I've spoken to has wanted to come back.”
Debbie Reno
“The educational system of a country is worthless unless it [revolutionizes the social order]. Men of scholarship, and prophetic insight, must show us the right way and lead us into light which is shining brighter and brighter.”
Carter G. Woodson
“The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.”
Hannah Arendt
“The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.”
Camille Paglia
