The Renaissance men

"So we are back to the great British intellectual airport dilemma: which bit of cultural baggage should you carry into the cabin for your flight through life, and which should remain sealed in the hold? Here is the answer: it is a bogus question. There is no check-in clerk. There are no intellectual baggage limits. The destination is unknown. The flight duration is uncertain. The take-off is right now. You should take both, because you will need them on the journey, and there is no carousel at the other end."

-from the article "Why are we still having the old arts v science debate?"

and commenting on "Is the Renaissance scholar dead?"

Palić... na korak od ringišpila i šećerne vate...

Posle Olomouca, Bratislavskog jutra, popodnevnog sunčanja u Budimpešti i promatranja golubova... Dozvoljavam sebi samo po stranicu dnevno Assmannove knjige. Još pretty much u uvodnom delu, ali osvetlao je obraz kad iznenada (o svom pristupu radu) reče:
"...having turned to ancient Egypt thirty-five years ago with questions that are all too easily forgotten as soon as one enters an academic discipline. Disciplines develop questions of their own and by doing so function as a mnemotechnique of forgetting with regard to concerns of a more general and fundamental character. In this book I try to remember and recover the questions, not to answer them."