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Roman Jakobson has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?
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Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.
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In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and…
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It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no…
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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
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A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
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The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and…
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Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
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Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound,…
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At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
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Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.
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Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
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Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only,…
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It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive,…
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I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical…
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The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all…
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While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached…
— Unknown Author
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There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical…
— Michael Faraday
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Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
— Roman Jakobson
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
— Edgard Varese
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The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries…
— Nikola Tesla
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