A pro-life advocate sees abortion as a sin against God who infuses life at the moment of conception. A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs. |
Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not. |
Eighteen months tops, everybody's gone. The accomplishments you've already achieved will fade away like butter in the sun. In the university world, if you pause for a while, and two or three years later, you say we can start again, you're farther back than you were when the whole enterprise began. |
I am in favor of affirmative action and gay and lesbian rights," he responded. "But I do not support abortion rights. |
I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me. |
I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact. |
In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective. |
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. |
It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are. |
Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved. |
There is no room at all, in the hiring process, which is heavily scripted, for revealing political and religious orientation. |
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn. |