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.

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

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

I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. That would be claiming too much. But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming . . . and a little mad.