Fixed Quote by David Lehman

Words physically have power to bring things into existence.

— Miroslav Penkov

A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering…

— Steven Pinker

If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their…

— Richard P. Feynman

There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be…

— Arthur Eddington

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

— Richard P. Feynman

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

— N. Scott Momaday

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn…

— Craig Brown

They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

— Paulo Coelho

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

— Aldous Huxley

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

— Kenneth Burke