If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.

Profit without purpose is chemistry without catalysts - possible, but painfully slow and inefficient.

"Language is not just a tool; it's a home for the displaced."

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Every word is a step towards understanding, every sentence a bridge to another soul.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole worldkin.

I believe in the power of love.

The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn?