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

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.

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

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

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