Fashion Quote by Bill Bryson

“Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.”

— Bill Bryson

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

— James Jeans

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

— Samuel R. Delany

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Languages are the keys of science.

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

— Thomas Jefferson

I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways.

— Pattiann Rogers

Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge…

— Oliver Sacks

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those…

— J. G. Ballard

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

— Samuel Johnson

We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too…

— Robert Winston

Languages shape the way we think, or don't.

— Erik Naggum