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Language Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
- Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written…
- Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.
- It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
- Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
- Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
- Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
- The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact,…
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