Contribution Quote by Ferdinand de Saussure

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

I think that this vein is close to being mined out already, but I'll say that my knowledge of and talent for linguistics are…

— Neal Stephenson

“Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists,…

— Russ Rymer

It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree…

— Anonymous

To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay…

— Abraham Maslow

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

— Samuel Johnson

Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.

— Bill Bryson

What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and…

— Albert Einstein

“Linguists have long debated the links between language, culture, and cognition. The theory of linguistic relativity posits that language itself—the specific tongue that we…

— Emily Anthes

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.

— Aldous Huxley

The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what…

— Arika Okrent