One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.

I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.

I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical rules seems even more dubious.

Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.

It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined.

The "little theme" from Vinteuil, heard by Swann as emblematic of his love for Odette, remains a point of reference for him, as the character of that love changes and as the love eventually fades.

Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.

The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we be afraid to learn more about what we are?

In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.

The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation.

Smile like a flower

I realize in this moment that all my life I've felt that I deserve to be punished, for wanting so much, for taking so much from this world, from the people who love me.

The Internet, my fickle friend, my two-faced enemy, what would life be like without you? Where else can I be anonymously anyone and yet, have no anonymity at all?

The only true disability is a crushed spirit

The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.

Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.

Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.

In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.

New surroundings have a way of returning attention to areas that may have become rote.