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

We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

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

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.

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

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.