Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

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

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

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

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.

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.