Acceptance Quote by Scott Adams

“Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding. These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found. Sometimes…

— Scott Adams

I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are…

— Maya Angelou

To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Words are like physical objects around us that appear to be continuous and whole but are in fact composed of particles too small for…

— Christina Meldrum

“The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is…

— Werner Heisenberg

We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about…

— Rene Descartes

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.

— Agnes Martin

Reality' is a word with many meanings.

— Peter Brook

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

— Charles II of England

[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

— Anthony Standen

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

— Paulo Coelho

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves

— Johann Georg Hamann