| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 30543 |
| QUOTATION: | Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William James (1842–1910), U.S. psychologist, philosopher. “The Present Dilemma in Philosophy,” lecture 1, Pragmatism (1907). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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