“Teaching is not about information. It's about having an honest intellectual relationship with your students.”

“Teaching students the evidence for and against Darwinism is not the same as teaching intelligent design. The U.S. Congress has officially endorsed teaching students 'the full range of scientific views' about Darwinian evolution.”

“Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.”

“Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.”

“It's not about having the perfect relationship. It's about finding someone who will be there throughout EVERYTHING.”

“The most important question a seminary student must answer about his professor is not, 'Is he orthodox?,' but 'Is he honest?”