Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.
A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.
I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.
The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.