Quotes about "Global & Cultural Wisdom"

I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it. ”

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment. ”

I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge. ”

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims. ”

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? ”

I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations. ”

The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out. ”

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure. ”

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. ”

I had the longest judicial vacancy in the history of the United States - on the Eastern District of North Carolina. Not many people know that. ”