Only the educated are free.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
If you think you can do it, you can.
I can, therefore I am.
Who seeks shall find.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Never complain and never explain.
Know or listen to those who know.
That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.