Language Quotes

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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is. — Larry Wall
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. — Larry Wall
Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need. — Edward McKendree Bounds
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and… — Jacques Chirac
Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows. — Bill Hicks
The only way you can find it is through being alone with your thoughts at sufficiently long intervals to give that inner voice within you… — Walter Russell
You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject… — Thomas Jefferson
The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols;… — Charles Sanders Peirce
What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity… — Albert Einstein
So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but… — Henri Poincare
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… — Jacob Bronowski
Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science… — Kenneth E. Boulding
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic… — Honore de Balzac
All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will employ this language,… — Henri Poincare
Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except… — Charles Darwin
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting… — James Clerk Maxwell
Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat,… — W. W. Rouse Ball
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach… — Adam Sedgwick
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a… — G. H. Hardy
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even… — G. H. Hardy

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