It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.