“The nature of the case and the history of philosophy combine to recommend to us this division of intellectual labour between Academies and Universities. To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person. He, too, who spends his day in dispensing his existing knowledge to all comers is unlikely to have either leisure or energy to acquire new.”
― The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin
― The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin
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