An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened.

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.

The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament...The university rests on the public will and on public appreciation.