The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.