A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.

There are no monotone "values" in biology.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.