In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude

I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.