"I read a great many books without finding one that satisfied my needs and so I decided to write one myself. (About hi…"

"I was not brought up in a religious milieu but was (like most Danes) born into the Lutheran-Protestant church. Religi…"

"I have a certain weakness for alternative ideas, not because I think they are valid but because they tell us somethin…"

"...It would be of value to have a comprehensive study of the relationship between philosophy and the physical science…"

"Technology...has become the prime source of material change and so determines the pattern of the total social fabric."

"My great-grandmother would talk about her uncles who served in the Maine Regiment during the Civil War, my great-gran…"

"The past contains many answers, but until we ask the right questions their meaning eludes us."

"...All historians are nonfiction writers, whether we know it or not."

"We need some citizens committed to exploring and producing knowledge, as well as consuming it, and the outcomes canno…"

"...After the more prosperous era of the mid-1990s through around 2008, we seem to have forgotten the truly dreadful m…"