If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.