Francis M. Cornford Quote

No academic person is ever voted into the chair until he has reached an age at which he has forgotten the meaning of the word 'irrelevant'.


Microcosmographia Academica (1908)


No academic person is ever voted into the chair until he has reached an age at which he has forgotten the meaning of the word 'irrelevant'.

No academic person is ever voted into the chair until he has reached an age at which he has forgotten the meaning of the word 'irrelevant'.

No academic person is ever voted into the chair until he has reached an age at which he has forgotten the meaning of the word 'irrelevant'.

No academic person is ever voted into the chair until he has reached an age at which he has forgotten the meaning of the word 'irrelevant'.