Kenneth L. Pike

"Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it."

"Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions."

"Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results."

"Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success."

"This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge."

"Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict."