James Van de Velde is the name of:
- James Oliver Van de Velde (1795–1855), Roman Catholic Bishop of Chicago between 1849 and 1853
- James Van de Velde (Yale lecturer), former Yale University lecturer, former person of interest in the Suzanne Jovin case.
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or van:
“This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)