Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.
Robert M. HutchinsCollege football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.
Robert M. HutchinsNobody 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.
Robert M. Hutchins