Quotes About Language

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

Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

Good writing isn't a science. It's an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.

All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.

The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

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

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

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.

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.

Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

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.

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.