Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or failure of the inner conflict within his own soul. And of this no one may know save God.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always be the false snobbery which tries to place one vocation above another. You will become a member of the aristocracy in the American sense only if your accomplishments and integrity earn this appellation.

Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on special assumptions, ad hoc hypothesis [invented for a purpose] on ad hoc hypothesis, and tearing apart the fabric of science whenever it appears convenient. The result is a fantasia which is neither history nor science.

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.