A biography for Kenneth L. Pikehasn’t been written yet.
“Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.”
“That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.”
“The detached observer's view is one window on the world.”
“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.”
“The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.”
“The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.”
“So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me.”
“Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.”
“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.”
“The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.”
“We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?”
“Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.”