The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

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

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.

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

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.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.