Philosophy is the product of wonder.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

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 race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

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

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.