While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.

Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.

I think that every educator, indeed every human being, is concerned with what is true and what is not; what experiences to cherish and which ones to avoid; and how best to relate to other human beings. We differ in how conscious we are of these questions; how reflective we are about our own stances; whether we are aware of how these human virtues are threatened by critiques (philosophical, cultural) and by technologies (chiefly the digital media). A good educator should help us all to navigate our way in this tangled web of virtues.

In order for me to 'endorse' an intelligence, I need to carry out lots of research.