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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.