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.

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

War can protect; it cannot create.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.