TV is not a baby sitter.
Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.
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.
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.