Immoral (definition): Obsolete expression meaning "politically incorrect".
America is the best half-educated country in the world.
The modern university does not exist to teach alone. . . It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament. . . The university rests on the public will and on public appreciation.
The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method
The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom means.
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history of philosophy records-of Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses to follow its splendid flights, is demonstrating today, as it never has been demonstrated before, the supremacy of the pure reason.
First of all, I don't think they have to go that high. That is not necessary, to be that high in the air. I think they're showing off, those pilots. I think we could just go really fast just a few feet off the ground. Just high enough to miss the animals.
The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.
When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.
We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.