Quotes About Language

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

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If 'is' means 'is and never has been' that's one thing - if it means 'there is none', that was a completely true statement.

It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.

Combinatorialists and analysts always have different names for everything, in order to keep themselves from interacting.

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven't seen nobody, you're actually saying that you have seen somebody.

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.

The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

A simple smile, a tender touch, speaks the true language of love.

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

You can communicate by responding with your body or with a hand clap, with a laugh or with a smile, with non-verbal communication.

human eyes know to converse well in all languages & human smiles know to conceal well many a things !!!

human eyes know to converse well in many a languages & human smiles know well to conceal many a things !!!

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.