Classical literacy and modern scholarship: how knowledge of Latin and Greek might deepen our current understanding of things, according to a German physicist; but the effort faces widespread difficulties:

“No one learns Latin and Greek anymore, and therefore everything becomes superficial.” This is the complaint of most learned journals, even though they themselves are simultaneously, and insensibly, the most covert and important enemies of genuine learning and the instigators of the calamity that they want to remedy. Part of the effect is considered to be the cause.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

With thanks to Ellen Yutzy Glebe