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The symbol of the University is the iron statue outside the Rathskeller of a barefoot goosegirl that every student kisses at graduation. The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known but to question it.
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Sourced to the book, The Ascent of Man (1975), BBC: London), p. 360, here, in the Dictionary of Scientific Quotations, here, etc.

 

Jacob Bronowski

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