Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

The detached observers view is one window on the world.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

We especially need imagination in science.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.