Alfred Whitney Griswold
Educator
1906-10-27 – 1963-04-19
Alfred Whitney Griswold was an American historian and educator. He served as president of Yale University from 1951 to 1963.
Quotes by Alfred Whitney Griswold
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The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
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