Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.

Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature. It is because science gives us the power of manipulating nature that it has more social importance than art. Science as the pursuit of truth is the equal, but not the superior, of art. Science as a technique, though it may have little intrinsic value, has a practical importance to which art cannot aspire.

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.