Charles Van Doren

Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.