These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornell's founding principle, a popular 1868 Ezra Cornell quotation: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."
Dessa ideal, som var okonventionella för tiden, återfinns i Cornells motto, ett populärt citat av Ezra Cornell från 1865: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."