The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

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.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

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