Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

Never accept ultimatums conventional wisdom or absolutes.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.