A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness of opportunity.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom.

They [students] had two common, strongly held expectations: the college should exhibit the behavior it expected from students and hold true to its espoused values.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

...something more than the sum of its parts-

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination.

I don't think everybody wanted to be on [new Star Trek series] . I certainly didn't.

We must, by God's grace, embody the vision. If not, we are duplicitous.

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

My goal is that after I am dead and gone, I want people to remember me for the person I am.

My young men shall never work. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams.