...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

The best education for the best is the best education for all.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

One thing can make many other things happen.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

I think each shoot has a different personality.

Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

If I wear make-up, then people recognise me, but the rest of the time, no one really bothers.

For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.