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.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

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.