“If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!”
“The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.”
| Charles G. Dawes, Vice President (1865) |
| Bernard Ebbers, Businessman (1941) |
| Tom Ford, Designer (1961) |
| Johann Georg Hamann, Philosopher (1730) |
| Lyndon B. Johnson, President (1908) |
| Tony Kanal, Musician (1970) |
| Bob Kerrey, Politician (1943) |
| Bernhard Langer, Athlete (1957) |
| Frank Leahy, Coach (1908) |
| Gracie Allen, Comedian (1964) |
| Bennett Cerf, Journalist (1971) |
| Brian Epstein, Businessman (1967) |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Author (1865) |
| Frank Harris, Author (1931) |
| Childe Hassam, Artist (1935) |
| Barbara Johnson, Critic (2009) |
| Ernest Lawrence, Scientist (1958) |