There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.