There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

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.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

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

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.