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

All of salvation is to make us look good! We who are dirty, worn, broken, and sinful are to be the showcase of heaven.

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

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

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

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

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.