"When nothing is revered, irreverence ceases to indicate critical thought."

"Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word Race has a fair claim to being the most common, the most …"

"In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, race was already a weapon in the struggle between absolutism, aristocr…"

"The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that thes…"

"If they [students] leave college thinking, as they usually do, that science offers a full, accurate, and literal desc…"

"A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty; and must not be burdened with m…"

"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game — …"

"Many of us affect a tone of irony about gadgets, as if we lived always in realms above and dealt with trifles only du…"

"The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the a…"

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."