The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

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

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.

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

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

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

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