Universities were originally an outgrowth of the Catholic Church. It's often still reflected in their names[1]. Yet you hear anti-religious comments from academ

Universities were originally an outgrowth of the Catholic Church. It's often still reflected in their names[1]. Yet you hear anti-religious comments from academics all the time. It's pretty common. Do you feel like you owe any particular loyalty to Edison or Borlaug? Or the people who financed their work whose names I don't even know? [1] http://www.ox.ac.uk/about/colleges http://www.ox.ac.uk/about/colleges