Offices in Salomon's House
"Perhaps the most common complaint which currently echoes through the halls of research institutes and universities concerns the inordinate time that researchers must spend in writing multiple grant proposals and reports..."
from the June 1985 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education
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On Censorship in the Arts for Spin
"The subject of Censorship in the Arts brings to mind a rather extraordinary piece of music by a Russian composer named Mossalov..."
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for a Commencement Address
"Actually, of course, I am where I am in the procession in recognition of the fact that I have a Ph.D. and thus, by long academic tradition, certified as unfit for the company of normal persons..."
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The Mystery of Judas
"I find several things puzzling about the role of Judas Iscariot as presented by the Gospel writers. All four authors specifically identify Judas as the betrayer of Jesus and all four condemn this act as the most vile and treacherous act that any man could perpetrate..."
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The Outdoor Club
"I suppose it was my own fault, but very early in the first year I taught at Kinkaid I somehow let the cat out the bag and it became known, not only that I liked to go camping, but that I had often taken students at the Texas Medical Center on camping trips with me..."
from the Kinkaid Falcon
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The Biology of Sex
"Sex was invented some 4 billion years ago by evolving bacteria as a means for shaking up and rearranging a cells instructions for making more cells..."
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Atheism and Theism
"We should select and use words, these simultaneous wings and fetters of our thoughts, with great care -- striving for precision where where exactness is appropriate or for vagueness where impressions need be amorphous..."
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