The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity. The scientist reasons inductively from the facts of experience.

It’s not true that I’m not religious. I’m religious, in the sense that I believe that the universe is lawful, that there are discoverable truths, that there is such a thing as reality, and we’re not just assembling this potential reality, which is subjective, and saying that it’s true because we believe it. There are real facts.

We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

The spoken word unites the objectivity of the corporeal sign with the subjectivity of gesture, the articulation of the latter with the self-awareness of the former.