If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.

I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether it be a Lawrence Krauss thinking that physics is rendering philosophy obsolete or a Sam Harris thinking that neuroscience is rendering moral philosophy obsolete - that it takes an awful lot of philosophy - philosophy of science in the first case, moral philosophy in the second - even to demonstrate the relevance of these empirical sciences.

What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good.

Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.

In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right that these words should be entangled at the root, together with our word for children, paides, which gave you your words pedagogy and pediatrician.

We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world.

We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives and for there to be morality in the first place.