Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.