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

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

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

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

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.

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

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