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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.

I would collaborate with James Franco as a rapper any day.

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

The only way a church is going to be relevant is to get out of its comfort zone and connect with unchurched people.

God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I'm led to.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.