The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

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.

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

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

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.