The kinds of claims I make about knowledge are thus meant to be illustrative of a general argumentative strategy which might well bear fruit in areas of philosophy which I have not thus far explored.

But there is no doubt that my own views on this are, in quite a number of ways, very different from those of Quine.

I was often asked how one could even make sense of this. Isn't the category of knowledge something that we project upon the world, rather than something that we discover in it?

I think that when I first suggested the idea that knowledge should be viewed as a natural kind, many people thought this was just crazy.

In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistemology.

My own reasons for favouring talk of natural kinds is just that I believe the best accounts of the success of scientific theories presupposes the existence of natural kinds.

I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I be convicted of practicing history of philosophy without a license.

There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted by science. I'm not much worried about this.

What I hankered for was an account of knowledge which would do far more than get our intuitions about cases right; I wanted a kind of account which would somehow be explanatory.

Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable.

When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is undermined.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

Listen with your heart, not your brain. the heart only knows TRUTH!

Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.

To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

There's going to be a flood of opportunities right now but I don't think I could really talk about them.

The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous.

We have a great obligation not only to look after our own interests, but to engage and to make sure that this meeting is at the beginning of a renaissance of trust.

I never wanted to leave Cleveland. My heart will always be in that area - in a perfect world I would have loved to stay.

It would be interesting to go to Buckingham Palace. I'd just like to see what goes on - I'm not bothered about hearing any political chat.

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.