Quotes About Communication

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.

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

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make a movie "World Of Tomorrow" out of it. It's a love letter to science fiction.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but ... its commercial value will be limited.

To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.

Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?

Science is just magic with better PR.

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

Music, to me, is not math or science. It is a language.

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a very depressing moment.