I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.

Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

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.

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.

Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.