University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.