Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Roger W. Heyns

American Educator, President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley during the most turbulent times of student protest in the 1960s

"Zealotry is often, it seems to me - a fundamentalism is just one form of it - an escape from anxiety. If you’re really scared, then the simple answer is going to be better than the complicated answer."