I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak… — Clive James Copy Share Image
People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“John Hodgson can describe Richard Dawkins's atheism as vacuous only because 'atheist' is a term which non-believers use purely as a polemical… — David Craig Copy Share Image
A drone strike is a terror weapon, we don't talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image