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

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

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

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.

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