Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera - and himself.

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.

Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.