The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.