The great virtue, I think, of studying Aristotle - and, more importantly, taking him seriously as a possible teacher - is that he presents an alternative view of both science and the world.

What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win.

In our lives a dog is a dog rather than a former wolf, and it surely is not a cat, a difference that means an enormous amount to some people.

The earth is, of course, not the geometric center of the universe. But it is certainly the center of our lives.

Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.

It was not the job of a litigator to determine facts

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

All forms of landscape are autobiographical.

It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

The last verse that became clear to my vision that day was this: "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God's in Christ Jesus for you."

You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.

The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.

I think there's a lot of unnecessary bullshit on the Internet. You can drown in it.