Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.

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.

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.

There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change, and the spirit of conservation. There can be nothing real without both. Mere change without conservation is a passage from nothing to nothing. . . . Mere conservation without change cannot conserve. For after all, there is a flux of circumstance, and the freshness of being evaporates under mere repetition.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.