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

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

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

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.

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

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

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.