Quote by George F. Will (b. 1941)

• Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

• We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

• We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

• The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet--a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school’s curriculum.

• Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.

• Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.