Famous quotes containing the words late and/or medieval:
“It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of to-day.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge.... The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)