When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. |
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. |
I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it. |
There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake. |
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 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. |
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? |
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. |
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. |
If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar. |
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience. |
God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis. |