"The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."

"The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin."

"No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life."

"Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah."

"That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back."

"Experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours."

"The present moment is the only sanctuary where peace truly resides."