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

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

The best education for the best is the best education for all.

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.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.