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.
Kenneth L. Pike

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.
Kenneth L. Pike

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
Kenneth L. Pike

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
Kenneth L. Pike

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.
Kenneth L. Pike

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.
Kenneth L. Pike

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
Kenneth L. Pike

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
Kenneth L. Pike

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
Kenneth L. Pike

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
Kenneth L. Pike


It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
Kenneth L. Pike

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
Kenneth L. Pike

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
Kenneth L. Pike

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.
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.
Kenneth L. Pike

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
Kenneth L. Pike

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
Kenneth L. Pike

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.
Kenneth L. Pike

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.
Kenneth L. Pike

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.
Kenneth L. Pike