By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Only the educated are free.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If you think you can do it, you can.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
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.