...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise correspond to the "mutations" of genetic theory. Some forms prove to be effective under prevailing circumstances and others not, and the perpetuation of the culture is determined accordingly.