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

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

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

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

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

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

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