There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn "x" (t gts lttl hrdr f y dn't vn kn whr th vwls r)

the mind is a neural computer

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age in the price we pay for the vigor of youth.