28 Quotes About Cambridge

I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift of expression is important to them as scientists; the best research is wasted when it is extremely difficult to discover what it is all about ... It is even more important when scientists are called upon to play their part in the world of affairs, as is happening to an increasing extent.

The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had discovered the atomic nucleus and begun transmuting elements, the physics laboratory at Oxford had not been wired for electricity. Intellectual neglect technical education to this day.[Describing C.P. Snow's observations on the neglect of technical education.]

The study smelled of brandy, saddle leather, and the bay rum her father's valet used after he shaved him. She glanced at the rows of books and imagined herself in Anthony's place being tutored for Cambridge. Her father always said she was far too intelligent for a girl, but he'd never stopped her from reading any of the books she requested, even the slightly scandalous ones.

Cambridge is beautiful... but... it doesn't have the power to heal and uplift as these forests and hills do. Buildings don't soothe you in the way that natural scenery does.

He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.

Truth like beauty seems to be in the eye and mind of the beholder

Babbage … gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.

To put it in somewhat drastic terms, Cambridge in the thirties was characterised by two things: a craze for communism and a craze for homosexuality.“Rubbish!” Farley said.“Well, you’re bound to have been busy with other things as well, like drunkenness, geometry and Shakespeare.

Two places away to the left was the don who had been Richard’s Director of Studies in English, who showed no signs of recognising him at all. This was hardly surprising since Richard had spent his three years here assiduously avoiding him, often to the extent of growing a beard and pretending to be someone else.