Like the birds I will fly.
To exclude religious teaching altogether from education. . . is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.
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.
You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.
Another name for peace is development.
My father. . . was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.