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These are the places to make mistakes and to take intellectual risks.
Robert L. Belknap
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Every Seminar evening produces a renewal of intellectual curiosity and energy and a surge in the power of thinking.
Lisa Keller
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The University Seminar is an independent universe.
Its boundaries are limited only by its horizons.
Frank Tannenbaum
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I have always been a great admirer of this institution, which to me looks like an authentic republic of letters…
Hannah Arendt
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The strength of its structure lies in the very multiplicity of its forms;
each a small living world in itself...
Margaret Mead
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...Seminars provide a haven for the expression of the partly-baked
idea:
'a speculation, a question of some novelty…
Robert K. Merton
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We have to some extent learned each other's language... to talk together more profitably.
Horace L. Friess
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These seminars let participants combine what they worry about as
members of the academy, with what they worry about when they
read the morning paper.
Sidney Morgenbesser
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The Seminars are one of the few places on campus where faculty, from different disciplines, across the NYC area, can come together for open, honest, and sustained dialogue...
Paige West
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...Seminars provide a brilliant system for faculty and graduate students of the greater New York area to discuss topics that fall outside the traditional confines of departments.
Herbert Terrace
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Because the idea is still alive…it is still a movement. Because it has assumed a shape, it is a community of scholars.
Joseph Maier
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Since their inception in 1944, the Seminars have provided a place to experience the simultaneous loss of innocence and prejudice.
Robert Pollack
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The Seminars bring together three generations of scholars and nonacademic members: young professionals, persons in the prime years of their careers, and emeriti.
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