Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
Umberto EcoYes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.
Umberto EcoWell, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.
Umberto EcoWhat is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.
Umberto Eco