A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking. — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
“our human language is full of indications of how much dogs mean to us.somebody who is not favored to win is an"underdog"… — Shirley mac Laine Copy Share Image
The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“I was not too impressed with human language; it seemed absurdly limited. There was so much that couldn’t be put into words.… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth,… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
“Human language can only work in broad categories. We create words for things, even though words have a danger of confining things.… — Chris Damian Copy Share Image
“Human language is too poor to express the real nature of the Absolute Truth or Ultimate Reality which is Nirvana. Language is… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language. — Henri Delacroix Copy Share Image
The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague. — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“...the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -… — David Abram Copy Share Image
How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“as human beings, we must inevitably see the universe from a centre lying within ourselves and speak about it in terms of… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No one seriously doubts that if Piraha children are brought up in Boston they'll be speaking Boston English, that is, that the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
“Language is a living being that grows and dies. It can be healthy, sick, nurtured, or malnourished. It all depends on those… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is in this respect that language differs most sharply from other biologic systems for communication. Ambiguity seems to be an… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
