Quotes About Communication

Words divide, pictures unite.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years.

A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Male science disregards female experiences because it can never share them.

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.