I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime

What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible