"The supreme virtue of the virtuous woman was modesty, a form of sexual self-control, manifested not only in chastity …"

"Revulsion is not an argument; and some of yesterday's repugnances are today calmly accepted—though, one must add, not…"

"Ours is the age of atomic power but also of nuclear proliferation, of globalized trade but also worldwide terrorism, …"

"Ancient science had sought knowledge of what things are, to be contemplated as an end in itself satisfying to the kno…"

"Even the modern word "concept" means "a grasping together," implying that the mind itself, in its act of knowing, fun…"

"The truths modern science finds—even about human beings—are value-neutral, in no way restraining, and indeed perfectl…"

"Could technology, understood as the disposition and activity of mastery, turn out to be a stumbling block in the path…"

"Francis Bacon, in his New Atlantis, could charge his elite scientists in Salomon’s House with practicing self-censors…"

"Many of our fellow citizens do not share the blind faith in the simple beneficence of all technological innovation. A…"

"Many lonely women, more than can safely admit it, secretly hope to meet a gentleman; but the vast majority steadfastl…"